Wagner Founder Urges Putin to End Military Operation in Ukraine.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner Group, a Kremlin-backed private military company, has urged Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his ongoing "special military operation" in Ukraine and focus instead on strengthening Russia's grip on the territories it occupied in the Eastern European country. Prigozhin claimed that Russia has achieved its goals in Ukraine and that the country should now focus on consolidating its gains. He also highlighted the importance of Bakhmut, a city in Ukraine's Donetsk region, to the Russian army.