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MOSCOW: The
Kremlin
on Friday dismissed a Wall Street Journal report that US intelligence believed Russia's Wagner
mercenary group
plans to provide Hezbollahwith an air defence system, saying such talk was unfounded. "We have already said that, de-facto, such a group (Wagner) does not exist," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "All of these musings are as a rule based on nothing and have no foundation," Peskov said when asked about the report.
In its report, Journal said Wagner plans to supply the Pantsir-S1 system, known by Nato as the SA-22, which uses anti-aircraft missiles and air-defence guns to intercept aircraft. One unidentified US official quoted by Journal said Washington had not confirmed that the air defence system had been sent.
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