Head of Russia’s Wagner Group Dismisses Talk of N. Korean Weapons as Gossip

(Reuters) – The top of personal Russian navy firm the Wagner Group on Thursday dismissed as “gossip and hypothesis” a U.S. assertion that it had taken supply of an arms cargo from North Korea.

“Everybody is aware of that North Korea has not been supplying any weapons to Russia for a very long time. And no such efforts have even been made,” Wagner proprietor Yevgeny Prigozhin mentioned in a press release.

(Reporting by David Ljunggren and Ron Popeski; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis)

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