Wagner Chief Writes Letter to U.S. Asking 'What Crime' Group Committed

The financier of the Wagner Group fighting for Moscow in Ukraine has written to the White House asking exactly "what crime" members of his private military company (PMC) have committed.

The letter by Yevgeny Prigozhin came after White House National Security Spokesman John Kirby announced on Friday that the Wagner mercenary group had been designated a "transnational criminal organization."

Kirby said that Wagner has about 50,000 fighters in Ukraine, 80 percent of whom have been drawn from prisons. He revealed how U.S. intelligence photographs from November had shown North Korea supplying arms to Wagner...