The Guardian: Admission that Wagner is state-funded could help try Putin for war crimes
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Russian dictator Vladimir Putin's admission that the Wagner mercenary group was government-funded could make it easier to try him for war crimes, the Guardian reported on July 1.
The Russian government has previously attempted to distance itself from the mercenary group which is accused of committing war crimes in Ukraine, Syria, and a number of African countries.
According to legal experts cited by the Guardian, such an admission is significant.
"Funding is, in and of itself, not sufficient to say that somebody's responsible for an international crime … [but] it makes it more difficult to say 'these things have nothing to do with us,'" one expert told the Guardian.
Ukraine is actively campaigning for the establishment of a special tribunal to bring Russian war criminals to justice.
Putin's admission that Wagner was funded by the Russian state came after Wagner founder Yevgeny Prigozhin launched an armed "rebellion" on June 23, only to stop short of reaching Moscow on June 24.
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