Hezbollah: Wagner to give Hezbollah air defence system? Kremlin dismisses report

MOSCOW: The Kremlin on Friday dismissed a Wall Street Journal report that US intelligence believed Russia’s Wagner mercenary group plans to offer Hezbollahwith an air defence system, saying such discuss was unfounded. “We now have already stated that, de-facto, such a bunch (Wagner) doesn’t exist,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov stated. “All of those musings are as a rule primarily based on nothing and haven’t any basis,” Peskov stated when requested in regards to the report.
In its report, Journal stated Wagner plans to produce the Pantsir-S1 system, recognized by Nato because the SA-22, which makes use of anti-aircraft missiles and air-defence weapons to intercept plane. One unidentified US official quoted by Journal stated Washington had not confirmed that the air defence system had been despatched.