US Labels Russia’s Wagner Group a Criminal Organization in New Bid to Blunt Its Power
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Visitors at the entrance of the 'PMC Wagner Centre' in Saint Petersburg.
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The Biden administration designated Russia’s Wagner Group a transnational criminal organization in a new effort to blunt the mercenary company’s powerful role on the battlefield in Ukraine and around the world.
New sanctions will be coming in the next week against the group, which the US estimates has about 50,000 personnel deployed in Ukraine, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said on Friday.