The US Treasury Department will designate the Russian mercenary organisation Wagner Group as a 'transnational criminal organisation' and will impose additional sanctions next week against the group and its support network across the world. 9News
mercenary organisation Wagner Group as a "transnational criminal organisation" and will impose additional sanctions next week against the group and its support network across the world, the White House said on Friday.
and back in November, in what the US believes was the initial delivery of infantry rockets and missiles for use by the mercenary organisation Wagner Group in Ukraine.In this aerial graphic provided by the US Government, Russian railcars are seen travelling between Russia and North Korea A senior western intelligence official echoed that assessment on Friday, telling reporters that the West is "certainly concerned that North Korea might plan to expand and deliver more military equipment or to sustain those deliveries."Pentagon spokesman John Kirby.More broadly, the US assesses that tensions between the Russian Defence Ministry and Wagner are increasing as Russian President Vladimir Putin increasingly relies on Wagner to carry out operations in Ukraine.
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