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UPDATE: Head of the Wagner PMC Mr Prigozhin commented on Kirbi’s claims:
“Unfortunately, Mr. Kirby makes quite a lot of statements based on speculation. Everyone knows that North Korea has not supplied any weapons to the Russian Federation for a long time. And such attempts were not even made. Therefore, the supply of weapons from the DPRK is nothing but gossip and speculation.
In my turn, I want to emphasize, as I have already answered this question today, that we buy quite a lot of US-made weapons. And therefore, most likely, my lawyers will be actively involved in the process of lifting US sanctions on the supply of weapons to the Wagner PMCs. We consider these restrictions absolutely unfair, due to the fact that the Wagner PMCs has never violated international trade rules when buying American weapons.”
Originally published by ZeroHedge
After months of issuing vague allegations that North Korea is supplying Russian forces with tens of thousands of artillery shells, which both sides have denied, the Biden administration on Thursday is finally out with something specific, saying that Pyongyang has delivered arms to Wagner group.
Wagner is the notorious private military contractor whose founder is said to be close to Vladimir Putin, and dubbed in Western reports as “Putin’s chef”. Western media has long accused Wagner operatives of committing war crimes in Ukraine, and before that on deployments in Syria.
“Wagner is searching around the world for arms suppliers to support its military operations in Ukraine,” White House national security spokesman John Kirby said in a Thursday press briefing. “We can confirm that North Korea has completed an initial arms delivery to Wagner, which paid for that equipment,” he added.
Kirby described the private Russian contractor as competing for power among official Kremlin ministries, acting as a “rival” also to the established defense ministry. A number of reports lately have suggested that Wagner mercenaries have operated with impunity and separate rules of engagement in Ukraine over the last ten months.
“Wagner is emerging as a rival power center to the Russian military and other Russian ministries,” Kirby explained, also stating that Wagner is spending over $100 million each month for Ukraine operations.
While European Parliament weeks ago formally slapped a ‘terror’ label on Wagner, the US is still said to be mulling the action, also vowing to ratchet sanctions on the Putin-connected firm.
More broadly, the White House has so far resisted calls from more hawkish corners of Congress to label Russia a state sponsor of terror, and is now said to be considering calling Russia an “aggressor state” – however, there’s no precedent for this term and it appears entirely made up by the administration in order to appease critics.
As CNN describes, “An aggressor state designation, unlike the label state sponsor of terrorism, is not an official State Department category that would trigger specific US sanctions, and critics say it would be easier for the president to rescind that designation than the state sponsor of terrorism one.”
It remains unclear at this point the precise type of weapons alleged to have been supplied to Wagner Group by the North Koreans. The broader Russian military is reportedly running low on artillery, which has been expended in the eastern and southern front lines at a rapid rate. In an official statement Pyongyang later in the evening denied the allegation.
The men and women of the white house are pathological liars 🤥, lying is natural for them its a their way of life.
Agreed!
It is a known fact that ‘believable lying’ is a minimal requirement for getting employment as a politician in many countries including the United States of Israel.
Hollywood is full of potential politicians! 😂🤣
Devil is the father of lies. Pathological liars are not dumb, they just traded their soul to devil and became dumb, because they are repeating same crap for decades and starting to believe what they say. It’s like G.Kasparov — chess champion with highest IQ level, but the dumbest person when it comes to politics. Some retired officials starts to tell truth, this is proof that they know real state of things, but forced to lie to hold their job or prefer to do so for promotion, because the whole system is based on lies, i.e. corrupt and needs in heavy brainwashing for masses of people to make them believe lies or everything will collapse as Arestovich said about the role of lies for Kiev regime.
They’re mostly Jewish. Most of the most important cabinet positions are seated with Jews.
If NK did, that itself would be a great service to humanity.
It would be a great service to humanity if NK could help Syria.
How about blackwater Kirby? How about the us supplying weapons to half the world Kirby? He is so pathetic !
They filmed expensive movie with N.Cage, but were not able to prove V.Bout’s guilt with all their sadistic methods of interrogation and psychological pressure. The movie was the main “proof”.
Russia needs to increase its artillery stockpile
So the American gangsters say,so what Bliken you Nazi?
The biggest problem Ukraine has is The White House supplying weapons to Neo-Nazi’s led by a Judenrat junta kapo.
Kill all Jews you stupid Slav Slaves of the Jew.
LOL! More BS. “An initial arms delivery” what does that mean? Do they have proof of payment? Do they have proof of what supposed arms were delivered? And then Kirby describes the Wagner group as a “rival power centre”!?! All of this shows just how deluded and clueless is the US government. It clearly understands not only nothing about how the Russian government functions but also how the Wagner group is funded. Typical.
So what if they did. What are they going to do? They will do nothing.
If NK is supplying much needed ammunition, one wonders what it is getting in return? I would assume it’s a combination of gas, oil, gold, cash and above all, more up to date weaponry.
Just like Iran, NK does have a certain level of reserve engineer capability. Maybe it’s getting captured Western made military tech to examine as well?
amerlocia is full of idiots ….
and Mexico paid for Trump’s beautiful border wall, right?
HOW CAN WE CALL A COUNTRY THAT KILL IS OWN CITIZEN for revenge ? If Russia is an aggressor state, we can affirm that Ukraine is a STATE SPONSOR OF TERROR and A PARIAH STATE. The Wagner group has all the right to buy weapons from Korea to kill and destroy any mercenaries or terrorists financed by a Pariah State as the US PARIAH STATE has taken the right to destroy any country that doesn’t follow their policies. Slava Rossii !
More lies from the administration that steals elections and is incapable of telling the truth about anything
Very interesting… since when is the largest weapons supplier worldwide, Washington DC, deemed itself to be in worldwide control of who is and who is not allowed to supply weapons to other world countries.
Sorry, but I don’t believe anything the American government says. That’s it.
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Legal trade is not prohibited. So Kirby, the vacuum cleaner, turn off and stop making noise. Question to smart people (not to Kirby) — what can be purchased in N.Korea that can’t be purchased in Russia? The only option i see — we can put some orders to produce at korean factories, because military factories in Russia are busy.
What White House transsexual did they get this information from?
Lol, I guess you can try and sanction N. Korea now right? Stupid fks.
North Korea has been developing mass artillery tactics since the 1950s, if you want artillery systems that work, North Korea is the place to go.
Welcome to the bipolar world. Biden and the Jews who control him have think tanks. They should have expected this type of thing.
I would think it would be obvious and natural to use up the old munitions in a protracted war. If the troops and the time is available, why not? Better to throw it away? If North Korea has the means to update their weapons and they have an excess inventory of older munitions that fit the available weapons in use, they should be selling it to Russia. Stop thinking of it as some kind of problem only because the Washington propaganda machine presumes it a problem. As for supplying the Wagner group, on balance that would seem unlikely. The most professional guys at the cutting edge of combat should have the best stuff, not the available hand-me-downs. That is common military practice. The best troops get the best stuff. As for Washington’s assertions, so what? They are the lies-are-us machine.