CNN military analyst Col. Cedric Leighton (Ret.) discusses the rise of tension between the head of the Wagner private military contractor, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and Russian […]
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Analyst says Wagner group leader is acting as Russia’s ‘shadow defense minister’
Russian oligarch Yevgeny Prigozhin is fighting his own war in eastern Ukraine, an often crude and increasingly vocal presence in Russia’s Moscow’s faltering military campaign. […]
Continue readingLeader of Russia’s Wagner group believed to have confronted Putin about the war
Yevgeny Prigozhin, the leader of a brutal, private army known as the Wagner Group, is now challenging Russia's Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu. American officials […]
Continue readingRetired general: ‘Russia is scrambling right now’
Ret. Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling reacts to Russia’s assertion that Ukraine is planning to use a so-called dirty bomb as a Russian false flag operation. […]
Continue reading‘Absolutely unheard of’: CNN reporter reacts to outward Russian defense minister criticism
CNN's Fred Pleitgen discusses the criticism of Russia's Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, after a Russian-installed official in occupied Kherson blamed Shoigu for recent Russian setbacks […]
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