(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 15 - Ukrainian artillery has centered the headquarters of the Russian mercenary group of the Wagner battalion in Popasna, in the self-proclaimed republic of Lugansk in Donbass controlled by Russian forces.
Local official sources and also pro-Russian sources cited by the BBC reveal this, but for now they do not pronounce themselves on the victims of the attack, provide further details.
Considered linked to the Kremlin - which however denies it - the paramilitary group Wagner also operates Syria, in Libya, in the Central African Republic and now in Mali, and is accused of war crimes and human rights violations.
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