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As the Russian military reeled on the battlefield in Ukraine last autumn, a foul-mouthed, ex-convict with a personal connection to

Dmitri Utkin, a longtime lieutenant to the Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny V. Prigozhin and the man whose nom de guerre

Yevgeny V. Prigozhin, the leader of the Russian Wagner mercenary group that staged a short-lived mutiny against the military top

Gen. Sergei Surovikin during a briefing at the Russian Defense Ministry in Moscow in 2017.Credit…Pavel Golovkin/Associated Press Gen. Sergei Surovikin,

Preparations for the 2023 BRICS Summit at the Sandton Convention Center in Johannesburg on Sunday.Credit…Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, left, and Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen of Denmark sitting in an F-16 fighter jet at

A Russian missile slammed into the center of Chernihiv in northern Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least seven people and

There was virtually nothing but rainforest for miles, and then the government agents spotted it: a makeshift shelter, the fire

Danish F-16 fighter jets performing at an airshow in Denmark last year.Credit…Henning Bagger/Ritzau Scanpix, via Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

Braving Russian shelling, three women walked for several hours from their homes on the front line in the southern Ukrainian