Ukraine war - latest: Wagner changes recruitment policy; Zelenskyy making major address to EU

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Ukraine war - latest: Wagner changes recruitment policy; Zelenskyy making major address to EU
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Earlier today the chair of the Russian State Duma, Vyacheslav Volodin, said the report should become the basis for an international investigation. "I can confirm that there has been a significant increase in attacks and shelling. And it is in the direction of Kreminna that they are trying to build on their success by pushing through our defenders' defences," he told Ukrainian television.If Russian forces broke through Ukrainian lines near Kreminna, which lies around 62 miles from the regional capital Luhansk, it would take them closer to the much larger city of Kramatorsk.

"The weather continues to play a significant role in the course of Russia's war in Ukraine," it said in its latest intelligence update, with the frozen ground meaning"there has likely been little change" in CCM conditions in recent weeks. "The recruitment of prisoners by the Wagner private military company has completely stopped," Prigozhin said in a response to a request for comment from a Russian media outlet published on social media.Wagner began recruiting prisoners in Russia's sprawling penal system in summer 2022, with Prigozhin, a catering entrepreneur who served nine years in prison during the Soviet Union, offering convicts a pardon if they survived six months in Ukraine.

In January, Russian state media released footage of Prigozhin meeting the first group of convict fighters to complete their stints in Ukraine and receive pardons.

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