Russia’s Wagner Group Sends Bloodied Sledgehammer To EU

A lawyer in a suit is seen in a Telegram video bringing a violin case into the empty room and setting it down on a table. Russia's Wagner Group essentially sends a bloodied sledgehammer to the EU.

Mercenaries from Russia's Wagner Group delivered a "bloodied" sledgehammer to the European Parliament in a violin case after members began the process of designating them as terrorists.

Because its members have used sledgehammers to kill while on missions abroad, the Kremlin-affiliated outfit has adopted them as an unofficial insignia.

In a video that Wagner Group uploaded on one of its Telegram channels, a suit-clad attorney brings a violin case into an empty room and sets it down on a table.

He reveals a finely polished sledgehammer when he raises the lid of the violin case. The Wagner's emblem has been carved on the head, and blood-red paint has been splattered into the handle.

Yevgeny Prigozhin, the financier and founder of Wagner Group who is also referred to as Putin...

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