The Kremlin said on Friday that the mercenary Wagner Group, whose leader Yevgeny Prigozhin is presumed to have died in a plane crash on Wednesday, has no formal legal existence.
In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Wagner exists as a group that has made a “big contribution” to Russia’s military campaign in Ukraine, and he praised its fighters’ “heroism”.
The Wagner mercenaries in June briefly attempted to march on Moscow in a mutiny aimed at ousting Prigozhin’s rivals in the defence establishment, a rebellion condemned by President Vladimir Putin as a treacherous “stab in the back”.
Kremlin says mercenary Wagner group has no formal legal existence
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