Human rights violations by private military and security companies, particularly the Wagner Group

Reference RC-B9-0560/2021

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How the groups voted

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The Left39

10522259%

S&D145

139006100%

Greens/EFA73

The European Parliament adopted by 585 votes to 40, with 43 abstentions, a resolution on human rights violations by private military and security companies, particularly the Wagner Group.The text adopted in plenary was tabled as a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, Renew, Greens/EFA and ECR groups.Parliament condemned in the strongest possible terms the heinous crimes committed by the Wagner Group and related private military entities (PMSEs). The Wagner Group was first identified in 2014, when it was supporting pro-Russian separatists and assisting the Russian army in the hostilities in the Donbass region of Ukraine and the illegal invasion and annexation of the Ukrainian region of Crimea. It has since been involved in conflicts in Syria,…