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The president of Belarus said Friday that he warned the late mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin twice that his life was likely in danger during and following the aborted uprising by his Wagner Group against the Russian government earlier this summer.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder and leader of the Wagner Group, died in a plane crash on Tuesday, leaving the private proxy group without a leader for now.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is reported to have died in a plane crash aged 62, was a former hot-dog seller and ex-convict who went on to become a billionaire restaurateur and “global Kremlin action man” running the so-called Wagner Group, a shadowy army of mercenaries, on behalf of the Russian president Vladimir Putin.

The former hot-dog seller and ex-convict came to prominence during the Donbas war in Ukraine from 2014 and was accused of atrocities

The head of the Russian paramilitary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been meeting with representatives from Mali, the Central African Republic and Niger. The United States, meanwhile, is attempting to block the Wagner Group from profiting from African mines

Since 2014, militant groups from Russia, Belarus, Chechnya, and elsewhere have established themselves as allies of Ukraine in its fight against Russia and its aligned forces. Though alignment with these groups presents clear benefits in the near term, Kyiv should be cautious since these groups could turn on Ukraine at any time should their interests no longer align.

A whistleblower tip about a document allegedly putting President Biden at the center of a bribery scheme triggered a guessing game across Washington.

Multiple tips to diplomats and law enforcement that might explain a whistleblower claim describing President Biden taking bribes have emerged.

Ukrainian authorities are starting to face up to the scale of the problem the country has, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers head into combat without the mental-health support they need

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the relations between the United States and Russia are "in a deep crisis," ...