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Russia accuses Wagner chief of armed mutiny, opens criminal case |
The case comes just hours after Yevgeny Prigozhin, the head of private military company Wagner Group, accused Moscow of lying about the war in Ukraine. |
Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee (NAC) reportedly based the case on Prigozhin's recent comments about the war in Ukraine that went viral. In a video released on Telegram, Prigozhin directly countered Russian President Vladimir Putin's narrative that the "special military operation" in Ukraine is intended to denazify and demilitarize Kyiv while protecting ethnic Russians. "The war was not needed to return our Russian citizens and not to demilitarize and denazify Ukraine," Prigozhin said. "The war was needed by oligarchs." He also said Moscow was covering up the number of casualties in Ukraine and that soldiers were fleeing amid a Ukrainian counteroffensive in the southeastern regions. Prigozhin is known to distort facts, and it's unclear how honest he has been. Just hours after the video was published, Prigozhin claimed that Russia's Defense Ministry launched a rocket strike on a Wagner camp and killed scores of his men. Russia's Defense Ministry denied those claims, responding that the allegations "do not correspond to reality and are an informational provocation." Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said Putin is aware of the situation with Prigozhin and that Russia is taking all necessary measures to respond. Prigozhin has maintained a long-running feud with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Gen. Valery Gerasimov, the commander overseeing Moscow's war in Ukraine. While his fighters have played a critical role in the war in Ukraine since the spring of 2022 and helped take the city of Bakhmut last month, Prigozhin repeatedly called Shoigu and Gerasimov cowards and said they failed to supply enough ammunition. Read the full report at TheHill.com. |
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The chance that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) will lift his hold on military promotions over the Pentagon's abortion policy anytime soon has dimmed drastically as Senate Republicans struggle to make a deal with him to end the months-long saga. The Senate Armed Services Committee this week failed to advance a bill that would have overturned the Pentagon's policy that covers some expenses for service members who must travel for an abortion ... |
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The Ukrainian military has halted a Russian advance in the east of the country and is now moving south, officials said Friday. "We had very fierce battles in the Kupiansk and Lyman directions, but our soldiers stopped the enemy there," Deputy Defence Minister Hanna Maliar told Ukrainian television ... |
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The Senate Armed Services Committee passed a draft version of the annual defense bill on Friday with little fanfare one day after the corresponding House panel cleared its own contentious version of the spending legislation. The Senate measure, passed 24-1 during a closed session this week, matches the $886 billion in total defense spending in the House bill and supports measures to give servicemembers ... |
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Upcoming things we're watching on our beat: |
- White House national security adviser Jake Sullivan and Under Secretary of State Victoria Nuland will head to Copenhagen, Denmark, this weekend to discuss peace in Ukraine with officials from India, Brazil and South Africa.
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Homeland Security team calls health care at border unsafe after probe of child death: report |
Investigators looking into the death of an 8-year-old girl in federal custody at the U.S.-Mexico border reportedly say that border patrol facilities are unsafe and lack the resources necessary to care for migrants. Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez died May 17 after eight days in Border Patrol custody; … |
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Events in and around the defense world: |
- The Atlantic Council discusses a path forward for Sudan during a hybrid event at 10 a.m. ET.
- The Center for Strategic and International Studies unpacks water insecurity and displacement in the Middle East for an online event at 9:30 a.m.
- Brookings Institution discusses European policy on asylum seekers and refugees during an online event at 10 a.m.
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News we've flagged from other outlets: |
- Chinese firm sent large shipments of gunpowder to Russian munitions factory (The New York Times)
- About 350 Pakistanis were on migrant boat that sank off Greece and many may have died, official says (The Associated Press)
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) is throwing his weight behind the conservative effort to expunge the two impeachments of former President Trump, … Read more |
| Clerk of the House Cheryl Johnson announced she will resign at the end of the month, after serving in her post since 2019. "It has been a distinct … Read more |
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