Russia's Wagner paramilitary group opens HQ in St Petersburg

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Yevgeny Prigozhin, who recently confirmed that he founded the highly secretive group and has been deployed in Latin America, Africa and Ukraine, announced the opening of the office on National Unity Day in a statement on his company's Concord website.Individuals in camouflage gear wandered through the building's grey corridors, looking at an exhibit featuring drones."The mission of the PMC Wagner Centre is to provide a comfortable environment for generating new ideas to improve Russia's defence capability," Prigozhin said in the statement.For years, the Wagner group has been suspected of playing a role in furthering Moscow's ambitions abroad, with the Kremlin denying any link.The group — and its leader — have played an increasingly important role in Russia's war against Ukraine since the full-scale invasion of the country launched last February."

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