This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate The head of the Russian private military contractor Wagner returned to a familiar theme this week — bashing the country's military leadership for failures in the war in Ukraine. That 's something only a select few can do publicly without drawing retribution from the Kremlin. The comments by Yevgeny Prigozhin underscored his long-running feud with the Defense Ministry. This time, however, they came as Moscow could boast of a rare, badly needed victory in the 15-month war in Ukraine, when Prigozhin and his fighters raised a Russian flag in...