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At Vilnius Airport, a Lithuanian national sporting a logo of Russia’s notorious Wagner Group on his backpack was fined and barred from his flight.

As of late October, large units of the Wagner Group have been assimilated into the command structure of the Russian Guard under the leadership of Pavel Prigozhin, the son of the group's founder Yevgeny Prigozhin, who died in a plane crash in August.

The United States is concerned about any activity by Russia’s Wagner Group, including in the wake of recent reports claiming the organization has renewed recruitment of new mercenaries into its ranks.

The United States is aware of the location of Russia’s Wagner Group fighters on the territory of Belarus and continues to monitor their movements and actions.

The presidents of Belarus and Russia, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin, have different ideas as to the use of Wagner Group’s mercenaries currently deployed in Belarus.

The Polish government is mulling a full border closure with Belarus as one of the measures to protect the country against the backdrop of the deteriorating security situation in the wake of the Wagner Group deployment in the neighboring country.

Today, the twelfth column of vehicles carrying Wagner Group mercenaries arrived in Belarus.

The Russian security apparatus entered a period of confusion and negotiations after the Wagner Group’s mutiny led by Yevgeny Prigozhin on June 23-24, 2023. In recent days, an interim arrangement for the future of the group has started to take shape.

General Sergei Surovikin, Commander-in-Chief Russian Aerospace Forces and deputy commander of Russian forces in Ukraine, has not appeared in public since the 23-24 June 2023 Wagner Group mutiny.

Andriy Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Committee on Defense, believes that there is no reason to blacklist Wagner Group, which participated in the mutiny effort launched by their leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

In a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, Kazakhstani President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev referred to the unfolding rebellion by Wagner Group mercenaries, led by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an internal matter of the Russian Federation.

The Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation initiated a criminal case targeting the leader of the notorious Wagner Group over public calls for armed rebellion.

Russian invaders are reinforcing their exhausted and lower quality units near Avdiivka with the Wagner Group elements.

Soldiers with the Ukrainian State Border Guard Service have used mortars to attack an area of concentration of Russian assault soldiers from the so-called "Wagner Group" in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eliminating at least 15 mercenaries.

Wagner financier Yevgeny Prigozhin said that he would transform the Wagner Group into a hardline ideological elite parallel military organization .....

The Wagner Group reportedly opened at least three new recruitment centers at Russian sports clubs between March 2 and 4, .....

Yevgeny Prigozhin, head of the Wagner Group, which both Ukraine and the U.S. reconized as an transnational criminal orrganization, has a personal economic interest in capturing the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut in the country’s east.

The UK Home Office is drawing up plans to formally proscribe Russian mercenaries the Wagner Group as a terrorist organization.

The U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Department of the Treasury designated Russian private military company Wagner Group as a significant transnational criminal organization entailing the imposition of additional sanctions.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s criminal group, “Wagner Group” has already lost about 40 out of 50 thousand recruited prisoners during the war .....