Andriy Yermak, head of the Ukrainian president’s office, has thanked the Lithuanian parliament for recognising Russia’s Wagner mercenary group as a terrorist organisation.
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“Thanks to the Lithuanian Seimas for passing a resolution designating the Russian Wagner PMC as a terrorist organisation,” Yermak tweeted on Tuesday.
“Others should follow suit. Should call culprits culprits,” he added.
The Lithuanian parliament said in its resolution that since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Wagner’s mercenaries have been committing ‘systematic, serious crimes of aggression – killing and torturing civilians in Ukraine, bombing homes and other civilian objects – that amount to terrorism”.
The document also names Wagner “Russia’s shadow instrument of power”.
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