Russian Mercenary Threatens to Assassinate Defector

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the boss of the Wagner Group, has vowed to kill Vladislav Izmailov, a former convict he recruited into his paramilitary outfit from prison in 2022, after Izmailov appeared in a video saying he is defecting to a Russian resistance group. The Russian Volunteer Corps (RVC), one of two Russian rebel groups to have entered Belgorod this month, said that one of the Russian citizens it captured who previously fought with the Wagner Group refused the exchange and now wishes to join its ranks.