![]() Ministry of Defence (MOD) said the Wagner Group appeared to have changed the way it recruits soldiers and that it had even taken in convicts with HIV and Hepatitis C. Petersburg authorities proposed to bury the soldier in a newly established Alley of Valor, which Wagner Group financier Yevgeniy Prigozhin opposed by promising that the individual will be buried in the Alley of Heroes." Petersburg, are not allowing the burial of a Wagner Group member in the Alley of Heroes at the Beloostrovsky cemetery, claiming that he is not a servicemember of the Russian Armed Forces, the report added. "The outlets reported that authorities in Smolny, St. Newsweek reached out to the Kremlin and the Armed Forces of Ukraine for comment.Īccording to the December 15 ISW report, Russian media outlets said officials in the country refuse to recognize Wagner Group members as participants in the war in Ukraine. The fate of the city remains unclear, with contradictory information coming out about it being on the brink of falling to Russian troops. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on December 10 that Russian shelling had reduced the city to ruins. Russia has been trying for months to conquer the small city in the Donetsk region, one of the four regions it annexed in September through widely condemned referendums. It added that Russia has not established air superiority or air supremacy in Ukraine and has "largely exhausted its precision-guided munitions arsenal." The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank said in a December 15 report that the battle for Bakhmut has been grueling for Russian forces who "currently advance no more than 100-200 meters a day after concentrating their main efforts there." He told the Georgian outlet Civil Georgia that the claim was "Russian disinformation" and that it was "not the first such case." Mamulashvili strongly denied that the legion was involved in an incident involving Russian prisoners of war in the village of Makiivka. The Georgian Legion has been accused of war crimes during the war in Ukraine. He added that the ambush took place on Monday, and that the attack lasted seven minutes. ![]() When asked about the impact of the ambush and what it means for the war effort, Mamulashvili told Newsweek: "It means one usual day, not more. ![]() Mamulashvili added that the Georgian Legion took seven pieces of heavy technical equipment during the same ambush. Its leader, Dmitry Utkin, has been photographed with Nazi tattoos. Members of the paramilitary outfit had assisted separatist forces in the self-declared Donetsk and Luhansk People's Republics between 20.
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