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Indicted Russian Oligarch Controls Mercenaries in Syria

February 23, 2018 at 8:26 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Yevgeniy Prigozhin, a Russian oligarch indicted last week by special counsel Robert Mueller, is believed “to control the Russian mercenaries who attacked U.S. troops and their allies in Syria this month” and “was in close touch with Kremlin and ­Syrian officials in the days and weeks before and after the assault,” the Washington Post reports.

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