Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the head of the Wagner Group, put out a video Friday threatening to withdraw from the battle over the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut. Here are some facts about the Wagner Group and what it’s doing in Ukraine.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin, head of the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, a network of private security contractors that have taken up arms in Ukraine,to withdraw from the protracted, bloody battle over the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut and railing against Russian military leadership for failing to supply his forces with sufficient ammunition.It remains to be seen if he will indeed withdraw — a move that would be catastrophic for Russia’s campaign to take the city and would probably carry political consequences.
The United States has designated the mercenary outfit a “significant transnational criminal organization.” The group has been accused of “mass executions, rape, child abductions, and physical abuse in the Central African Republic and Mali,” Treasury Secretary Janet L. Yellen said in a statement this year.
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