Wagner Group

Aug 24, 2025
Prigozhin's mother sitting on a green couch, interviewed in her home.
‘Doomed’ Wagner chief didn’t want to topple Putin, his mother says

Violetta Prigozhina says she tried to dissuade her son, the Wagner Group chief, from marching on Moscow

The Times
Aug 7, 2025
A young boy holds a Russian flag at a demonstration supporting Russia and China in the Central African Republic.
African country defies Putin to preserve dead rival’s empire

The Central African Republic wants to keep the Wagner Group’s mercenaries despite a Kremlin demand to accept its new Africa Corps — and pay more

The Times
Jul 8, 2025
Jakeem Rose, Nii Mensah and Ugnius Asmena, were recruited by Wagner Group to carry out the arson attack
Gang recruited by Wagner Group carried out London arson attack

The men set fire to an east London warehouse holding aid for Ukraine in March last year, causing about £1m of damage

The Times
Collage of a man's face, fire, security camera footage, fingerprints, and the Wagner Group logo.
The Wagner network behind arson attack in London

We track a web of Russian operations across Europe in which spies have recruited gangsters on social media for a campaign of sabotage and assassinations

The Times
Jun 22, 2025
Memorial to Yevgeny Prigozhin, 40 days after his death.
Slain Wagner chief lives on as symbol of Putin’s fragility

Two years after his failed revolt, the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remains popular among Russians

The Times
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May 28, 2025
Yevgeny Prigozhin in camouflage, holding a rifle in a desert.
RUSSIA
Will Putin be toppled by a military coup?

In Putin’s Sledgehammer, Candace Rondeaux gives a detailed account of the 2023 mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Could rising discontent in the ranks lead to more trouble for the Kremlin?

The Times
Paul Carey Jones as The Dutchman in a performance of The Flying Dutchman.
FIRST NIGHT
The Flying Dutchman — stormy Wagner stays afloat

Opera Holland Park’s first Wagner staging has questionable moments, but Eleanor Dennis’s Senta and Paul Carey Jones’s Dutchman are a strikingly effective pair

The Times
Apr 3, 2025
Jo Sidhu QC, Chairman of the Criminal Bar Association, speaking at a rally.
OUT OF COURT
KC or not KC — Jo Sidhu to appeal against his disbarment

The cases, the chatter, the chaos: what’s really going on in the law

The Times
Jan 30, 2025
Yevgeny Prigozhin in military uniform speaks from an unspecified location in Ukraine.
Solicitor regulator accused of failing to act on oligarch ‘Slapp’

The watchdog spent more than two years investigating a law firm acting for the sanctioned Yevgeny Prigozhin to bring a costly case against a British journalist

The Times
Jan 29, 2025
Yevgeny Prigozhin and Vladimir Putin at a school lunch factory.
Lawyers for Russian warlord broke no rules, watchdog finds

A now defunct law firm was accused of pursuing a ‘Slapp’ case on behalf of the head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries

The Times

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Aug 24, 2025
‘Doomed’ Wagner chief didn’t want to topple Putin, his mother says

Violetta Prigozhina says she tried to dissuade her son, the Wagner Group chief, from marching on Moscow

The Times
Aug 7, 2025
African country defies Putin to preserve dead rival’s empire

The Central African Republic wants to keep the Wagner Group’s mercenaries despite a Kremlin demand to accept its new Africa Corps — and pay more

The Times
Jul 8, 2025
Gang recruited by Wagner Group carried out London arson attack

The men set fire to an east London warehouse holding aid for Ukraine in March last year, causing about £1m of damage

The Times
Jul 8, 2025
The Wagner network behind arson attack in London

We track a web of Russian operations across Europe in which spies have recruited gangsters on social media for a campaign of sabotage and assassinations

The Times
Jun 22, 2025
Slain Wagner chief lives on as symbol of Putin’s fragility

Two years after his failed revolt, the mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin remains popular among Russians

The Times
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May 28, 2025
RUSSIA
Will Putin be toppled by a military coup?

In Putin’s Sledgehammer, Candace Rondeaux gives a detailed account of the 2023 mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin. Could rising discontent in the ranks lead to more trouble for the Kremlin?

The Times
May 28, 2025
FIRST NIGHT
The Flying Dutchman — stormy Wagner stays afloat

Opera Holland Park’s first Wagner staging has questionable moments, but Eleanor Dennis’s Senta and Paul Carey Jones’s Dutchman are a strikingly effective pair

The Times
Apr 3, 2025
OUT OF COURT
KC or not KC — Jo Sidhu to appeal against his disbarment

The cases, the chatter, the chaos: what’s really going on in the law

The Times
Jan 30, 2025
Solicitor regulator accused of failing to act on oligarch ‘Slapp’

The watchdog spent more than two years investigating a law firm acting for the sanctioned Yevgeny Prigozhin to bring a costly case against a British journalist

The Times
Jan 29, 2025
Lawyers for Russian warlord broke no rules, watchdog finds

A now defunct law firm was accused of pursuing a ‘Slapp’ case on behalf of the head of the Wagner Group of mercenaries

The Times

The Wagner group is a Russian mercenary group, created in 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin. President Putin has said it received hundreds of millions of pounds in state funding, even though private military groups are banned under Russian law. The Wagner group has fought in Ukraine, Syria and parts of Africa. The group hired convicts from Russia to fight on the front line in Ukraine in return for amnesties. Its fighters have been accused of multiple war crimes including murder, torture and rape.