the U.S. government has the Russian private army Wagner declared a transnational criminal organization and sanctions against the mercenary group and its network imposed. This was announced by the US State Department and the US Treasury Department in Washington.
The US government had already announced the step last week and said that the classification would allow the US and other countries to restrict the international business of the mercenary group and its global network of supporters.
As also previously announced, the US government has imposed punitive measures against the Wagner Group and its subsidiaries, as well as against various individuals and companies that work with it. The US State Department also continued to impose sanctions on several other Russian entities and supporters of President Vladimir Putin. The aim was to weaken Moscow’s abilities in the war against Ukraine and to put further pressure on Russia’s defense sector, the reasoning said.
In the ranks of private army be currently around 50,000 fighters deployed in Ukraine, it said recently from the National Security Council of the US government. be underneath 10,000 mercenaries and 40,000 convicts.You can read about the role played by the Wagner group in Putin’s campaign here: