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The US assigns the Russian Wagner hired soldier force as a criminal association

The Wagner Gathering has an expected 50,000 contenders in Ukraine, 80% drawn from Russian penitentiaries.

The US has assigned Russia's Wagner hired soldier bunch as a "transnational criminal association", heaping strain on the confidential armed force that has selected many Russian detainees to battle in Ukraine.

White House public safety representative John Kirby said on Friday that Wagner, constrained by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a financial specialist near Russian President Vladimir Putin, had around 50,000 contenders in Ukraine, 80% of them drawn from Russia's jail framework.