សហរដ្ឋអាមេរិកចាត់តាំងក្រុម Mercenary Wagner Group ដែលត្រូវបានចោទប្រកាន់ពីបទផ្តល់អាវុធកូរ៉េខាងជើងទៅកាន់ប្រទេសរុស្ស៊ី ដែលជា "អង្គការឧក្រិដ្ឋកម្មឆ្លងដែន"

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The U.S. Department of Treasury is planning to designate the military company the Wagner Group a “transnational criminal organization,” White House Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby announced on Friday—the latest action against the group as U.S. officials accuse it of increasingly supplying weapons to the Kremlin in its invasion of Ukraine.

ការពិតសំខាន់

នៅក្នុង សន្និសីទសារព័ត៌មាន on Friday, Kirby accused the organization—a group made up of Russian mercenaries—of “committing atrocities and human rights abuses” in Ukraine, as the invasion enters its eleventh month.

Kirby also claimed Putin is increasingly turning to the Wagner Group “as his military continues to struggle in Ukraine,” while the Wagner Group’s owner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, is “trying to advance his own interests” in the eastern European country.

The designation as a transnational criminal organization under បទបញ្ជាប្រតិបត្តិ 13581 freezes U.S. assets in the Wagner Group’s control and prohibits U.S. citizens from providing goods, funds or services to them.

The announcement comes one month after U.S. officials accused the group of accepting rockets and missiles from North Korea to support Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which both Prigozhin and North Korean officials បានបដិសេធ.

In the press conference, however, Kirby presented photos showing train cars sent into North Korea from Russia, and returning filled with weapons, a move that Kirby condemned, asking Korean officials to stop providing weapons to the Wagner Group “immediately.”

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50,000. That’s how many personnel the Wagner Group has deployed in Ukraine, made up primarily of Russian convicts, as well as roughly 10,000 contracted recruits. Kirby said it’s likely the organization will continue to recruit personnel “right out of Russian prisons.”

សាវតាសំខាន់

Last month, the Department of Commerce កំណត់ the Wagner Group as a “military end user,” a move that prevents it from accessing equipment “based on U.S. technology or production equipment.” U.S. officials had previously ចោទ the group of supplying military support to Russia last March, just one month into the Kremlin’s invasion, and eight years after it រាយការណ៍ assisted Russia in its annexation of Crimea. The group has also been connected to Russia’s យុទ្ធនាការផ្លូវអាកាស during Syria’s civil war in support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has been accused of carrying out chemical warfare against civilians, as well as African countries including Mali, Mozambique and the Central African Republic, where the U.N. ចោទ mercenaries of having committed “grave human rights abuses.”

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The Russian government, however, has រក្សាទុក it is not linked to the Wagner Group, citing Russian law that makes private military contractors illegal. Tensions between the Russian military—which has lost ground in eastern and southern regions in Ukraine in recent months—and the Wagner Group are growing, Kirby said on Friday, making Wagner a “rival power center” to the Russian Defense Ministry, which has reservations about Wagner’s recruitment from prisons, according to U.S. intelligence, Kirby said.

សម្រង់សំខាន់

“Our message to any company that is considering providing support to Wagner is simply this: Wagner is a criminal organization that is committing widespread atrocities and human rights abuses, and we will work relentlessly to identify, disrupt, expose and target those who are assisting Wagner,” Kirby said.

អ្វីដែលត្រូវមើល

Kirby said the U.S. will also impose sanctions on the Wagner Group as early as next week, with more actions to come.

អានបន្ថែម

U.S. plans to impose new sanctions next week against Russia’s Wagner private military group (Reuters)

Treasury to designate Wagner transnational criminal group (សារព័ត៌មានពាក់ព័ន្ធ)

What Is The Wagner Group? This Kremlin-Linked Mercenary Firm Is Reportedly Sending More Operatives Into Ukraine (ទស្សនាវដ្តី Forbes)