The Pentagon has assessed that Wagner, the Russian mercenary group that conducted a brief but dramatic mutiny against the Kremlin last month, is not “participating in any significant capacity in support of combat operations in Ukraine.”
said he is “serious” about pursuing a prisoner exchange with Russia to bring home Evan Gershkovich,
a Wall Street Journal reporter who has been detained in Russia for 100 days as of last week. “That process is underway,” Thursday in Helsinki, adding that he is “doing what we can to free Americans being illegally held in Russia or anywhere else.”. A small but vocal bloc of conservatives in Congress have bitterly opposed the tens of billions of dollars in U.S. military aid, training and other support supplied to the government in Kyiv.
“The split is continuing in the army,” said Sergei Markov, a Kremlin-connected political consultant. “There is dissatisfaction among a significant part of the top brass. Of course this undermines morale in the army.”
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