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Stickers with QR codes that lead to a recruitment website for Russia’s Wagner paramilitary group in Warsaw, Poland, in August 2023. (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
On Wednesday, the US Department of the Treasury announced it was adding 300 companies and individuals to a sanctions list as part of efforts “to intensify the pressure on Russia for its continued cruel and unprovoked war against Ukraine”.
Russia uses a complex, transnational network to feed its war machine, according to the US, and the new list will help shut down those efforts.
One self-described security guard from South Africa was surprised to hear that when News24 reached him for comment about his inclusion.
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