battlefield efficiency but now is sudden about face. we have completely discontinued the recruitment of prisoners into wagner pmc, he writes. those who work for us now are fulfilling all their obligations. ukrainian intelligence recently gave cnn access to two convicts recruited by wagner who the ukrainians captured on the front line. they said they were speaking with us willingly but we re disguising their identity for their own safety. they were 90 of us in our first assault, he said. 60 died in the first assault killed by mortar fire. a handful remained wounded. the men say they were cannon fodder but retreating was not allowed. we were given the task of taking a place and we had to take it at any cost, he says. we couldn t retreat without orders because if we didn t comply, we would be killed. four months personally went to russian jails with his offer even for murders and rapists,
The United States will soon designate the private military company Wagner Group as a transnational criminal organization and impose sanctions on its network
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Labelling Wagner a foreign terrorist organisation would allow the US to pursue criminal prosecution against the group and its members, as well as go after its assets around the globe.