US accuses Wagner Group of supplying missiles to Sudan’s RSF

A man cleans debris of a house hit in recent fighting in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, on April 25 [File: Marwan Ali/AP Photo]

Washington, DC – The United States has accused Russia’s Wagner Group of providing surface-to-air missiles to the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), one side in Sudan’s ongoing conflict that has displaced nearly 1.3 million people.

Thursday’s allegation against the mercenary group came as the US Treasury Department also imposed sanctions on Wagner’s leader in Mali, accusing him of trying to obtain weapons for Russia’s war in Ukraine.