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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has led to as many as 150,000 Russian prisoners being sent to the frontline and it means that prisons as well as penal colonies are being closed down

Dylan Earl, 20, is charged with aiding Russian terrorist unit the Wagner Group, as he is said to have organised and paid for arson attacks on a Ukraine aid centre in easyt London

Wagner mercenaries allegedly met with North Korean officials in the Middle Eastern country of Syria to make the reported arms deal appear less murky

Vladimir Putin, the Russian President, has boosted the country's National Guard to 350,000, compared to the UK’s 73,000 troops and soldiers in Russia are also equipped with heavier weapons

World affairs expert Professor Anthony Glees has explained to the Mirror why he's feeling 'gloomy' about Vladimir Putin as 2024 approaches - but there is one way the West can stop him now

The leader of the notorious Wagner Company military group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, was killed alongside other senior mercenary warlords when his private jet tumbled out of the sky around 500km from Moscow

Yevgeny Prigozhin used doubles and decoys to ensure his safety and was never without his group of handpicked bodyguards - but the ring of steel was not enough to protect him

On Wednesday of this week, Wagner Company mercenary boss Yevgeny Prigozhin was reported to have died in a plane crash north of Moscow, coming just two months after his short-lived putsch

Yevgeny Prigozhin's private jet was seen tumbling out of the sky yesterday, crashing to the ground before erupting in a fiery inferno in Russia's Tver region, killing all 10 people on board, including Prigozhin himself

Vladimir Putin said the Wagner Group boss Yevgeny Prigozhin, who launched an ill-fated coup against Moscow, had 'made mistakes' - but a US intelligence official said the plane crash was suspicious

Vladimir Putin memorialised Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, as a man of "complicated fate" who had made "serious mistakes" in recent weeks during a televised address today

Yevgeny Prigozhin has been a dead man walking for two months since his so-called “march on Moscow” mutiny faltered - his death was inevitable after going too far for Vladimir Putin

Just two months ago, Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin amassed his 25,000 war-hardened mercenaries and started to march on Moscow to depose Russia's military leadership

A video of the horror crash shows the light aircraft - which was reportedly owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin - falling out of the skies in Bologovsky, Tver, before another clip showed the burning wreck smoking in a field

The UK’s Ministry of Defence said in its daily update on Friday, that the recruitment drive of criminals only resulted in "one of the bloodiest episodes in modern military history"

The Wagner Group are set to be used to take an area of land know as the Suwalki Corridor between Poland and Lithuania, amid fears the countries face invasion, claims a top Putin loyalist

The head of Ukraine's military intelligence said Yevgeny Prigozhin's war-hardened mutineers couldn't reach the "backpack nukes" from the Voronezh-45 nuclear base because the facility's door was closed

A number of senior Wagner Group executives and a handful of oligarchs have been earmarked for the Russian president’s hit squads, it is believed

Though the Wagner coup over the weekend was over in a matter of hours, it was the strongest challenge against Vladimir Putin and his leadership in his 20 years in office - and it's a challenge that he will be unable to ride out, according to senior Ukrainian officials

As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end

On Saturday, the leader of the Wagner Company Yevgeny Prigozhin and his 25,000 mercenaries stormed Rostov-on-Don in the south of the country with plans to march on Moscow and depose Vladimir Putin's top military brass

Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders used a speech at the Royal United Services Institute’s Land Warfare Conference to highlight the threat from Moscow

Wagner group chef Yevgeny Prigozhin sparked panic in the halls of the Kremlin on Saturday when he announced that he was marching 25,000 of his elite and murderous mercenaries on to Moscow to topple Russia's military leadership

A senior government official says the UK must prepare for a 'whole range of different scenarios' following Wagner Group's failed coup attempt

Despite Putin accusing his former ally of treason and a “stab in the back”, Wagner's chief was allowed to go into exile in Belarus under a secret deal brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko