Russian officials had repeatedly denied the Russian government's involvement in financing the group.
"As for private companies, including private security companies, under the auspices of which the people you mentioned operate there, and they are really present there, this is not the Russian state, and they are not participants in hostilities, unfortunately or fortunately."
During a January 2020 joint news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Putin was asked how many Wagner Group mercenaries were in Libya. He again"If there are any Russian citizens there, they neither represent the interests of the Russian state, nor receive funding from the Russian state."the Russian authorities had nothing to do with the Wagner mercenaries present in Mali:
"I have already made it clear that the Russian state has nothing to do with this . I am saying this quite responsibly without any hidden agenda. Local authorities invite them at the state level, thank them for their work, and so on."that Wagner forces were taking part in Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
"I think that the talk about the presence of Wagner in Ukraine is due precisely to the desire to divert attention from what our Western colleagues are doing … Wagner is a private military company that has nothing to do with the Russian state."
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