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A total of 243 passengers and crew were evacuated from the plane as giant plumes of smoke billowed from the aircraft

Bristol-born Shareef Amin, who goes by the nickname "Rambo", escaped with his life after being pummelled by Russian gunfire - but need extensive surgery to save his arm and leg

The Kremlin had previously given Yevgeny Prigozhin a pass, likely due to his service in Ukraine, but Kyiv now believes the FSB has been ordered to kill the chief mutineer

The Russian president assassination attempt reportedly involved laying explosives laid on a river bed below a bridge that Putin's motorcade would have travelled over

Russian President Vladimir Putin flew to the city of Derbent, on the Caspian Sea, 2,000km from Moscow, to mark the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha and visit an ancient citadel and historic mosque

US President Joe Biden confused the war in Ukraine with the 'war in Iraq' in a latest gaffe in front of reporters outside the White House, while speaking about Russia and Vladimir Putin

A number of senior Wagner Group executives and a handful of oligarchs have been earmarked for the Russian president’s hit squads, it is believed

Though the Wagner coup over the weekend was over in a matter of hours, it was the strongest challenge against Vladimir Putin and his leadership in his 20 years in office - and it's a challenge that he will be unable to ride out, according to senior Ukrainian officials

It is alleged that General Sergei ‘Armageddon’ Surovikin is being held at the Lefortovo pre-trial detention centre over a plot to oust defence minister Sergei Shoigu

Mercenary warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, who was a convict and hot dog seller in a previous life, is staying in a hotel in the capital of Belarus, Minsk, where he has been exiled after calling off his brief uprising

Vladimir Putin paid tribute to fallen Russian service people in a speech today, in which he acknowledged the "extremely dangerous" mutiny on Saturday when Yevgeny Prigozhin amassed 25,000 Wagner troops in a southern Russian town

News that Matthew White should also have faced charges over the racist murder which rocked our nation are a tough reminder of the changes still needed in the Met following the Casey Review

Vladimir Putin gave a blistering live address to the world as he accused Wagner rebels of betraying Russia and claimed the West and Ukraine had been involved in the failed coup

Foreign Minister James Celeverly said he felt 'uncomfortable' about Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin at a military base home to nuclear weapons, telling the Commons he was keeping a 'very close eye' on the situation

As the Wagner Group nearly attempted a coup against Vladimir Putin at the weekend, Mirror Defence Editor Chris Hughes looks at the warlord's fears of meeting a violent end

Sergei Shoigu, Vladimir Putin's defence minister has been filmed in the war zone flying over military positions and talking with his commanders as he faces down attempt to oust him

On Saturday, the leader of the Wagner Company Yevgeny Prigozhin and his 25,000 mercenaries stormed Rostov-on-Don in the south of the country with plans to march on Moscow and depose Vladimir Putin's top military brass

Chief of the General Staff General Sir Patrick Sanders used a speech at the Royal United Services Institute’s Land Warfare Conference to highlight the threat from Moscow

On Saturday, mercenary warlord and leader of the private Wagner company Yevgeny Prigozhin launched an unprecedented challenge against the Russian leadership, announcing that he would be marching his 25,000 hardened warriors on Moscow

US Secretary of Sate Anthony Blinken has claimed there are 'cracks emerging' in Vladimir Putin's Russia after an armed rebellion by Yevgeny Prigozhin's Wagner group

Wagner group chef Yevgeny Prigozhin sparked panic in the halls of the Kremlin on Saturday when he announced that he was marching 25,000 of his elite and murderous mercenaries on to Moscow to topple Russia's military leadership

A senior government official says the UK must prepare for a 'whole range of different scenarios' following Wagner Group's failed coup attempt

'Invading Ukraine is deservedly backfiring badly on humiliated Putin, who relied on former ally Prigozhin’s hired dogs of war to do much of the fighting in occupied territory'

Despite Putin accusing his former ally of treason and a “stab in the back”, Wagner's chief was allowed to go into exile in Belarus under a secret deal brokered by Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko

Following Wagner Group mercenaries' dramatic U-turn miles outside Moscow yesterday and its chef Yevgeny Prigozhin leaving for Belarus, Vladimir Putin has spoken to the media