Wagner's first field commander was Dmitry Utkin, a former Russian special forces officer. The group was named after his radio call sign. Most Wagner mercenaries initially came from Russia's ...

MYTISHCHI /Moscow Region/, August 31. /TASS/. Dmitry Utkin, commander of the Wagner Private Military Company (PMC) has been buried at the Pantheon of Homeland Defenders federal military memorial ...

Little is known about the man thought to be the original founder of Wagner and Prigozhin’s right-hand man. While Prigozhin’s face was ubiquitous in global media, Utkin rarely made public ...

Senior Wagner commander Dmitry Utkin - who founded the group in 2014 - was also on the passenger list, it said. The plane is reported to have come down near the village of Kuzhenkino, about half ...

The names of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin are on the list." Dmitry Utkin was the Wagner group commander under Mr Prigozhin. US President Joe Biden was briefed on the crash. BIDEN ...

Both him and Dmitry Utkin are the real heroes, and no one else has such a heroic image right now, not just in Russia, but in the whole world." President Vladimir Putin has now ordered Wagner ...

"Prigozhin and Utkin especially had deep knowledge," Bouessel said, "and they had all the connections with the African regimes where Wagner is working. It will take time for Russia to take it over ...

A bronze statue of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late leader of Russia's Wagner paramilitary mercenary group, has been erected in the capital of the Central African Republic (CAR). The monument to ...

The monument to Prigozhin and his Wagner co-founder Dmitry Utkin, who both died in a plane crash in Russia in August 2023, two months after their aborted mutiny against the Kremlin, was unveiled in ...