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The Ukrainian authorities have said that a devastating Russian strike on a town close to the front lines in eastern Ukraine has killed at least 17 people and left dozens injured.

Russian officials say the head of the Wagner mercenary group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has been confirmed dead – after forensic tests on the ten bodies found after his private jet crashed on Wednesday. The timing of the crash – two months after Mr Prigozhin led a short lived mutiny, has pointed the finger towards President Putin’s…

Evgenia Kara-Murza, the wife of long-time Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza, joins Krishnan Guru-Murthy to talk about her fight to free Russia’s political prisoners, the toll Vladimir’s detention has taken on their family and whether she can envisage a future in a free, democratic Russia, in this week’s Way to Change the World podcast.

In Russia the aftermath of the mutiny is less destructive, but ongoing, with claims sourced to the US government that at least one senior general was aware of the uprising and allowed it to happen.

In Ukraine, Russia continues to rain down terror in the form of missiles. But in Russia, the psychodrama continues to play out following this weekend’s mutiny by militia men of the Wagner group. Rumours swirl that their leader Yevgeny Prigozhin has already left his exile in Belarus and is now back in Russia. Last night…

Hubertus Jahn, professor of the history of Russia at Cambridge University, explains how the “mafia boss” in the Kremlin has seen a crack emerge in his enterprise – and who knows what might happen next.

Here in Ukraine, the question is will history repeat itself? The last attempted coup in Russia in 1991 was quashed, but the Soviet leader Gorbachev was gone just months later. So is Putin now a President without a prayer?

We spoke to Kurt Volker, a diplomat who served as the United States’ Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019.

Here in Ukraine the battle against Russian forces goes on remorselessly. But in Russia it’s the reverberations of yesterday’s extraordinary events that are still being felt. President Putin is reported to have spoken again on the phone to President Lukashenko of neighbouring Belarus, who yesterday brokered the deal that saw Yevgeny Prigozhin order his Wagner…

We’re joined by Candace Rondeaux, who is director of the Future Frontlines initiative at the New America think-tank, and professor at the Center on the Future of War at Arizona State University. She has covered the rise of the Wagner Group since 2018. And by Arkady Ostrovsky is the Russia and Eastern Europe Editor of…

We speak to Ukrainian MP Oleksiy Goncharenko about the developments in Russia.

An armed mutiny, a betrayal, a knife in the back – and a visibly angry Vladimir Putin speaking after the tanks and armoured vehicles of the Wagner Group of soldiers – supposedly fighting on his behalf – seize the city of Rostov-on-Don and take control of military sites in an audacious act of rebellion. The…

The UK government has called a Cobra meeting to discuss the unfolding events in Russia.

The people of Kherson had already lived through months of Russian occupation. 

Huge rescue and evacuation efforts are underway in Ukraine’s southern region of Kherson after the breach of the Nova Kakhovka dam.