Who funds Wagner Fighters?

 

Victoria Nuland, the U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, told Congress earlier this year gold mining in countries like the Central African Republic and Mali “directly funds the Wagner group fighters engaged in in Ukraine.”

In December, the U.S. believed that the Wagner Group had an estimated 50,000 personnel inside Ukraine — around 10,000 contractors and 40,000 convicts from Russian prisons, U.S. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said.