US State Department is concerned about any activity of Wagner Group

Matthew Miller. Photo: Getty Images

Matthew Miller, spokesman of the US State Department, said on Wednesday, 1 November, the United States was concerned about any activity by the Russian Wagner Private Military Company (PMC), including after reports of the resumption of recruitment of the group’s militants.

Source: Ukrinform correspondent with reference to Miller at the briefing

Quote: “Sure, we always have concerns about the Wagner Group’s activity, whether in Ukraine or Africa.”

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Details: According to Miller, that is why the United States, along with its partners, took measures to bring the representatives of Wagner PMC to justice.

Background: 

• On 1 November, Russian media reported that the Wagner Group became a unit of the Russian National Guard (Rosgvardia) and resumed recruiting soldiers in Russia, in particular in Perm and Novosibirsk.
• Earlier, it was reported that the Russian Guard is recruiting former prisoner-fighters of the Wagner Group to subdue the remaining Wagner fighters and, at the same time, take care of Russia’s internal security.
• Following the death of Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin and other senior figures in a plane crash in August, the Kremlin began to say that Wagner does not legally exist, and they could not comment on the company’s future.
• The Armed Forces of Ukraine stated that the former mercenaries of the Wagner Group who were in Belarus signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defence and moved to the eastern front in Ukraine. Some of them went to Africa.

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