Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed defiance against the Kremlin after the latest Russian missiles killed at least 11 people and injured another 11 throughout Ukraine.
Yevgeniy Prigozhin, the Russian tycoon behind Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, decried new U.S. sanctions imposed on Wagner.
In a statement, Prigozhin said that he alone funded the group and said that he would “spit on” any sanctions. Prigozhin and Wagner have been accused of working to evade sanctions in the past; some U.S. lawmakers be designated a terrorist organization, a label that would trigger even stronger financial restrictions.The Wagner group appears to have suffered heavy losses in recent battles in eastern UkraineThursday. Videos and photographs of a site in southern Russia show a formerly empty plot of land steadily being filled with freshly-dug graves, crosses and name plaques. The news agency said it had matched some of the names of those buried with publicly-available documents and social media accounts.
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