The head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group said his units had taken control of the strategic salt mining town near Bakhmut, where Moscow has focused its fight. Here’s the latest on the war and its ripple effects across the globe.
, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov announced Tuesday — one of the worst financial years in the country’s history, as its economy bore the brunt of the high costs of its war in Ukraine and the pain of Western economic sanctions.a U.K.-based charity said. The Legacy of War Foundation, which was selling 50 prints by the artist Banksy to raise money for its work in Ukraine, said on its4.
The convicts were apparently sent to some of the most dangerous hot spots on the front line, and many were killed, The Washington Post’s Mary Ilyushina reports. About two dozen of them, initially recruited by the Wagner mercenary group in circumvention of Russian law, have now returned home but will probably return to the front in a matter of weeks, according to Russia Behind Bars, a prisoners’ rights group.
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