The head of the Wagner private military corporation, Yevgeny Prighozin, has allegedly died in the Wednesday crash of a business jet owned by the company in Russia. The Russian Ministry… Continue reading "Wagner PMC Head Yevgeny Prighozin Allegedly Killed In Plane Crash"
The rising threat on the Polish-Belarus border is an issue for the national security of Poland. For almost two years now Poland states that Minsk has tried to spark fear… Continue reading "Poland Deploying 10,000 Troops In The East, Considers Closing Border With Belarus"
The leader of Russia’s Wagner private military contractor said on Wednesday that its mercenaries fighting in the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut still faced ammunition shortages, despite promises from the… Continue reading "Wagner Head Claims Continued Ammunition Shortage Despite Promises"
A human rights group monitoring the treatment of inmates at Russian penitentiaries reports that prisoners are being recruited to fight in Ukraine. Gulagu.net states that recruitment campaigns had been recently… Continue reading "Russian Prisoners’ Rights Group: Russia Is Recruiting Prisoners To Serve In Ukraine"
It has been another busy week full of defense news, in this new series of Weekend Briefings we’ll round up all of the latest, most important and interesting defense stories… Continue reading "Weekend Briefing"