Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dmitry Utkin, a close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, is presumed dead in Wednesday's plane crash. The Wagner Group is named after ...

"Wagner is a cruel fellow," a Wagner officer told RFE/RL in 2018, speaking of senior mercenary field commander Dmitry Utkin, whose call sign was "Wagner." "He's no fool." When a private jet that ...

DNA testing of Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin‘s downed plane has confirmed that he was on board, Russian authorities say. Testing also confirmed the death of everyone else on the passenger list, ...

MOSCOW — The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name was buried Thursday during a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery in Moscow. Dmitry Utkin died in an Aug. 23 ...

Mr. Utkin, 53, was a prominent commander in the private Russian military company and a longtime lieutenant to Yevgeny V. Prigozhin. He died in a plane crash, Russian authorities said. By Cassandra ...

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Dmitry Utkin, a close associate of Yevgeny Prigozhin, is presumed dead in Wednesday's plane crash. The Wagner Group is named after Utkin's callsign, which stems from his fascination with Nazi Germany.

MOSCOW (AP) — The man who is believed to have given Russian mercenary group Wagner its name was buried Thursday during a quiet ceremony at a military cemetery in Moscow. Dmitry Utkin died in an Aug.