But Igor Girkin, a Russian nationalist and former Federal Security Service officer who helped launch the original Donbas war in 2014 and is under U.S. sanctions, has said Prigozhin is careless with the lives of his men.

Source: https://www.shorenewsnetwork.com/2023/01/15/analysis-russian-mercenary-boss-courts/

But last Thursday, Russia’s Federal Security Service arrested Gershkovich and accused him of trying to secure classified information.

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/04/02/brittney-griner-concerned-for-wsj-reporter-evan-gershkovich-held-in-russia/

Colleagues of Gershkovich claim that he was aware that he might be followed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) because of the sensitive subject matter.

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11929113/WSJ-reporter-tweeted-writing-Russia-watching-people-know-locked-away-years.html?ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490&ito=1490

Igor Girkin, a nationalist and former Federal Security Service officer who helped Russia annex Crimea in 2014 and then organize pro-Russian militias in eastern Ukraine, claimed “the number of dead and wounded runs into many hundreds.”

Source: https://nypost.com/2023/01/02/russian-fires-drone-stamped-with-happy-new-year-in-kyiv/

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on March 30 it had detained Gershkovich in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg and had opened an espionage case against him for collecting what it said were state secrets about the military industrial complex.

Source: https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/crime/russia-charges-us-reporter-with-espionage-c-10284231

The Federal Security Service (FSB), the successor to the KGB, said on Thursday that Evan Gershkovich had been detained in the Ural Mountains city of Yekaterinburg while allegedly trying to obtain classified information.

Source: https://www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-41105212.html