The US Treasury Department will designate the Russian mercenary organisation Wagner Group as a "transnational criminal organisation" and will impose additional sanctions next week against the group and its support network across the world, the White House said on Friday."These actions recognize the transcontinental threat that Wagner poses, including through its ongoing pattern of serious criminal activity," National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby told reporters on Friday, ahead of the Treasury Department announcement.Along with the new sanctions, the US has released newly declassified photos of Russian railcars travelling from Russia to North Korea and back in November, in what the US believes was the initial delivery of infantry rockets and missiles for use by the mercenary organisation Wagner Group in Ukraine.
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