White House national security spokesperson John Kirby says the US Treasury Department will designate Wagner as a significant Transnational Criminal Organisation.
abc.net.au/news/us-to-impose-new-sanctions-against-russia-wagner-group/101878938The United States will impose additional sanctions against Russian private military company the Wagner Group, which US officials say has been helping Russia's military in the Ukraine war.
"In coordination with this designation, we will also impose additional sanctions next week against Wagner and its support network across multiple continents," Mr Kirby told reporters at the daily White House briefing. Declaring Wagner a transnational criminal organisation under US executive order 13581 freezes any US assets of Wagner and prohibits Americans from providing funds, goods, or services to the group.
North Korea's foreign ministry had called the report groundless and denounced the United States for providing lethal weapons to Ukraine.
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