On Tuesday, the Lithuanian parliament voted unanimously to designate the Russian Wagner mercenary company as a “terrorist organization.”

The Wagner Orchestra, as it calls itself, has led the Russian war machine in Ukraine in recent months, succeeding where regular Russian military forces have failed, while employing at least controversial tactics.

The Lithuanian parliament, justifying its decision, accused Wagner of “systematic, serious crimes of aggression” in Ukraine.

The mercenaries, who are accused of being a well-organized group of assassins, have been trying for months to capture the town of Bakhmut in the western Donbass of eastern Ukraine, and their ranks are reported to have almost exclusively included former and current prisoners. from Russian prisons.

Wagner founder and CEO Yevgeny Prigozhin is wanted by US authorities, and any Wagner member found on Lithuanian soil now faces arrest after the company was designated a terrorist organization.

Source: Reuters.