The financial prize of huge salt mines could have driven Russia's Wagner Group to sacrifice 1,000 men to capture the city of Bakhmut, says White House

Jan 7 2023 by Business Insider

 
Prigozhin at a foreign investors meeting in St. Petersburg in 2016.

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A White House official told Reuters that the head of Wagner Group wants salt and gypsum from Bakhmut. This could explain Russia and Yevgeny Prigozhin's "obsession" with seizing the city. Prigozhin denied that he was interested in the city's mineral deposits on Telegram.

The US believes that Russian President Vladimir Putin's ally Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founder of the mercenary Wagner Group, wants...

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