The US Attorney General said that The head of the Russian paramilitary group “Wagner” Yevgeny Prigozhin is a “war criminal”reported France Press.
“I think we have more than enough evidence to support my position,” Merrick Garland said during a Senate hearing.
Prigozhin accused the Russian authorities of not supplying ammunition to “Wagner”
The Wagner group “is responsible for attacks against Ukrainians in Donbass, including the use of prisoners from Russian penal colonies as cannon meso“, said the minister.
“What they are doing is unimaginable, and we must do everything in our power to stop them,” Garland said, promising to help Ukrainian justice investigate these crimes.
Ukraine’s Prosecutor General Andriy Kostin recently announced that he was opening an investigation into Prigozhin for “war crimes.”
The 61-year-old businessman who made his fortune in the restaurant businessrecently admitted that in 2014 he created the band Wagner and created “troll farm’ to run propaganda campaigns on the internet.
In 2018, Prigogine was indicted by the US for meddling in the country’s 2016 elections.
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Wagner is considered by Washington to be a transnational international organized crime group, similar to the Italian and Japanese mafias. American congressmen insist that it be designated as a “terrorist group”.
During the hearing, Garland also said the US had “supported” European efforts to establish an “international coordination center for the prosecution of the crime of aggression” in The Hague, which is due to start operating in the summer.
