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Financial Times - Putin admits Kremlin paid billions to bankroll Wagner’s paramilitaries

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Putin admitted bankrolling the Wagner mercenary group after years of denials, the Financial Times reports, as the fallout from Yevgeny Prigozhin’s failed uprising continues. 

The paper says that, “after years of denials”, Russia’s president confirmed the group had been “completely financed” from the Kremlin, adding that he is moving to subsume Wagner into the official military following the mutiny over the weekend.

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