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Around 30,000 new Russian fighters could be recruited by May, Wagner boss says
Russia's Wagner mercenary group plans to recruit around 30,000 new fighters by the middle of May, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has said.
Mr Prigozhin said in an audio message on Telegram that Wagner recruitment centres, which he said last week had opened in 42 Russian cities, were hiring on average 500-800 people a day.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now welcomed the ICC decision, saying it showed that "nobody is above the law".
"The International Criminal Court is the right institution to investigate war crimes. The fact is that nobody is above the law and that's what's becoming clear right now," Mr Scholz said at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.
Russia's Wagner mercenary group plans to recruit around 30,000 new fighters by the middle of May, its founder Yevgeny Prigozhin has said.
Mr Prigozhin said in an audio message on Telegram that Wagner recruitment centres, which he said last week had opened in 42 Russian cities, were hiring on average 500-800 people a day.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has now welcomed the ICC decision, saying it showed that "nobody is above the law".
"The International Criminal Court is the right institution to investigate war crimes. The fact is that nobody is above the law and that's what's becoming clear right now," Mr Scholz said at a joint news conference in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida.