The Russian mercenary organization “Wagner Group” (Wagner Group) played a key role in the Ukrainian-Russian War. The head of Wagner Prigozhin (Yevgeny Prigozhin) announced today that the organization plans to use the salt mining town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine. The remains of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the fighting were sent to the territory controlled by Kyiv; Commander Wagner revealed that the group will use 4 to 5 convoys with a total of regarding 20 trucks to transport the remains.

According to a Archyde.com report, the Wagner Group announced on the 11th that it had captured Soledar, and the administrative unit established by Russia in the Donetsk (Donetsk) region of Udon also claimed earlier this week that following fierce fighting, Russia had taken control of the country. Soledal. Ukrainian authorities have previously emphasized that the Russian army suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Soledar.

The Kyiv Independent reported that Ukrainian Presidential Adviser Mykhaylo Podolyak said on Twitter that the Wagner Group recruited 38,244 prisoners into the Ukrainian-Russian battlefield, but as of January 2023 On the 1st, 29,543 people were lost, including dead, wounded, missing, and captured, and the battle loss was as high as 77%.

The RIA FAN media website under Prigozin quoted a Wagner commander as saying that the group will use 4 to 5 convoys, with a total of regarding 20 trucks, to transport the remains of the dead Ukrainian soldiers from Soledar to Ukrainian control. territory. The report did not say how many bodies the Wagner Group would return to the Kyiv authorities, but only mentioned that the Ukrainian army suffered heavy casualties there.

The Wagner Group has been designated by the United States as a “transnational criminal organization” for its continued aid to the Russian military in Russia’s war once morest Ukraine, and a new wave of sanctions will be imposed next week. Washington has twice imposed restrictions on trade with Wagner, in 2017 and last December, to limit his access to weapons. The European Union (EU) also imposed sanctions on Wagner in December 2021.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby (John Kirby) pointed out on the 20th that the Wagner Group (Wagner Group), which has long supported Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine and claimed to have made progress on the battlefield, will be listed as an important “transnational criminal organization”. A new wave of sanctions begins next week. He described Wagner as a “criminal organization that has committed widespread atrocities and human rights violations”.

Prigogine posted an English letter addressed to Kirby on his Telegram news service today. He wrote: “Dear Mr. Kirby, can you explain what crimes Wagner committed?” Social media An unconfirmed video was previously circulated on the platform Telegram, showing that a former Wagner Group mercenary was headshot and executed following admitting to defecting to “fight once morest Russia” in September 2022.

In the video, a man who identified himself as Yevgenny Nuzhin, 55, had his head taped to a nearby brick wall. He said he was kidnapped in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on October 11 and kept in a cellar. After Mnuchin finished speaking, an unidentified man in a battle suit standing behind him swung a hammer and slammed Nuzin on the side of the head and neck. Mnuchin fell to the ground, and the man continued to punch him on the head.