The move puts Wagner in league with Italian mafia groups and Japanese and Russian organised crime. Read more at straitstimes.com.
WASHINGTON - The United States on Friday designated Russia’s Wagner group as a “transnational criminal organisation”, piling pressure on the private Russian army fighting in Ukraine.
The photographs, from Nov 18-19, show Russian rail cars entering North Korea, picking up a load of infantry rockets and missiles, and returning to Russia, he said. Wagner “is a criminal organisation that is committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses,” Kirby said. The arms transfers from North Korea are in direct violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, Mr Kirby said.Prigozhin’s confidence in Wagner fighters’ relative success in Ukraine“Wagner is becoming a rival power centre to the Russian military and other Russian ministries,” Mr Kirby said.
Wagner fighters are tough and disciplined, Mr Prigozhin says, but are brutally punished if they flee the battle.In a photo taken on Nov 11, 2011, Mr Yevgeny Prigozhin assists Russian PM Vladimir Putin during a dinner with foreign scholars and journalists at a restaurant. PHOTO: REUTERS
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