Russia moves 'Wagner Group' mercenaries to Donbas - British intelligence
"EVROPEISKA PRAVDA" - MONDAY, 4 APRIL 2022, 09:51
Russia is continuing to consolidate its forces for an offensive in Donbas and is redeploying so-called "Wagner Group" mercenaries to the area.
This, according to Evropeiska Pravda, was stated in a UK Ministry of Defence statement dated 4 April.
"Russian forces continue to consolidate and reorganise as they refocus their offensive into the Donbas region in the east of Ukraine. Russian troops, including mercenaries from the Russian state-linked Wagner private military company, are being moved into the area," the statement said.
Wagner mercenaries spotted in Donetsk. Photo, released by a GRU-linked blogger, made in front of Park Inn hotel where @OSCE was housed until recently (thus photo = now). Many of the Wagnerites are true Nazies, as some of them have told me. The irony. pic.twitter.com/zeCthglAov
— Christo Grozev (@christogrozev) April 4, 2022
The UK Ministry of Defence also believes that Mariupol is almost certainly a key target for a Russian invasion of Ukraine, as control over it will provide a land corridor to Crimea.
