A Russian convict recruited by the Wagner Group tells his story In recent months, representatives from the Wagner Group, a notorious private military company that’s said to be funded by Kremlin-linked oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin, have visited at least 20 prisons throughout Russia in a campaign to recruit inmates to fight in Ukraine. On September 15, Ukrainian journalist Yury Butusov posted a video of his interview with a man named Yevgeny Nuzhin.

After the retreat of the Russian army, a mass burial was found in Raisins. “The world must see this,” Zelensky said Evgeniy Maloletka / AP / Scanpix / Leta Exhumation of the bodies at the place of mass burial in Raisins, September 16, 2022 In the city of Izyum in the Kharkov region, from where the Russian troops left, they discovered a mass burial . The first photos from there on the evening of September 15 were published by the present time .

The Ministry of Justice of Russia has included the artist Maxim Galkin in the list of individuals who perform the function of a "foreign agent". The Ministry of Justice claims that Galkin is politically active and receives assistance from a foreign source - Ukraine. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Maxim Galkin repeatedly spoke out against the war.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to include alcohol in the list of goods allowed for import into Russia as part of parallel imports. The corresponding document was published on the website of draft regulatory legal acts. It is proposed to supply Veuve Clicquot champagne to Russia; Martini and Cinzano vermouths; Jack Daniel's, Jim Beam, Johnnie Walker whiskey; Captain Morgan rum, Havana Club; liqueurs Jägermeister, Kahlua, Malibu; Olmeca tequila and other drinks.

Residents of the Ukrainian town of Balakliya describe life under Russian occupation Ukrainian Presidential Press Service / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Balakliya after the Russian army’s retreat. September 13, 2022 In early September, Ukrainian forces launched a successful counteroffensive in the country’s Kharkiv region, liberating dozens of towns and villages that had been under Russian occupation for months.

The Ministry of Justice has removed the human rights organization Apologia from the list of media outlets that are “foreign agents” due to the lack of foreign funding. A message about this was published on the department’s website. The Ministry of Justice included Apologia in the list of “foreign agents” in May 2022.

Commissioner under the President of the Russian Federation for the Protection of the Rights of Entrepreneurs Boris Titov confirmed his resignation, Interfax reports . Titov said that the law does not allow him to hold this post for more than two terms, and also added that "to do such a difficult job for more than ten years is, as they say, too much," Nezavisimaya Gazeta quoted the official as .

He said about the onset of Ukraine: "Well, let's see how it will end" Sergey Bobylev / TASS President Vladimir Putin on September 16 spoke at a press conference following the SCO summit in Samarkand and answered, in particular, to several questions about the war in Ukraine. A fully press conference can be seen here . The main thing that Putin said. On the counterattack of Ukraine The Kyiv authorities announced that they were conducting an active counterattack.

Ukrainian journalist Yuri Butusov published an interview with a Russian prisoner. He signed up in Wagner's PMC and surrendered The editor-in-chief of the Ukrainian publication “Censor.net” Yuri Butusov published an interview with a man who called Evgeny Nugin, a concluded from the Ryazan correctional colony No. 3, who went to Ukraine as part of the PMC of Wagner.

RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who is in pretrial detention in connection with the case of "fakes" about the Russian army, slit her wrists. She was rescued, according to a report by RusNews. As the publication writes, on September 16, an appeal to extend Ponomarenko's arrest was considered; the journalist participated in the hearing via video link. She said that she was diagnosed with hysterical personality disorder.

Russia will do everything to end the war with Ukraine as soon as possible, but Kyiv refused to negotiate. This was stated by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Interfax reports. In a conversation with Putin, Modi said that "the current era is not an era of wars." “I know your position on the conflict in Ukraine, your concerns that you constantly express. We will do our best to stop this as soon as possible.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Evgeny Prigozhin is already so higher than the law that it can recruit people for his PMC directly in the colonies. Is it really influential? Or wants us to think so? Since the beginning of July 2022, the media have written that Wagner's PMC recruits prisoners in Russian colonies. Their name is to fight in Ukraine in exchange for pardon. According to journalists, businessman Evgeny Prigozhin personally participates in such agitation.

Russia’s oldest human rights group, Memorial International, reported that the Russian authorities are trying to seize its office building on Moscow’s Karetny Ryad. The organization was legally dissolved by the Russian Supreme Court in 2021 but has since continued to operate. Memorial purchased the Karetny Ryad building in 2005.

Russian conscripts drafted in the spring are being transferred from outside Moscow to the Belgorod region “to defend the national border,” the relatives of three soldiers told BBC Russia . The Taman Division 1st Guards Motor Rifle Regiment will reportedly be stationed in the town of Valuyki, less than 20 miles from Ukraine. Hours earlier, the region’s governor announced that Ukrainian artillery fire at Valuyki killed one resident and injured two more.

Oximiron left Russia after the start of the war - and then returned. Here is his clip from St. Petersburg Oximiron, who, after the outbreak of war, canceled performances in Russia, left the country and gave several concerts in support of Ukrainian refugees, released the video "Oida". It was shot in St. Petersburg and dedicated to the war. The video from the clip’s filming last week was posted by the rapper manager.