U.S. has declared Wagner to be a transnational criminal organization, Kurti has said members of this group were in the north.

The United States Treasury Department has announced this week the Russian paramilitary group Wagner, the Transnational Criminal Organisation. This decision was made as part of efforts to strike these mercenaries responsible for many cruel crimes in Ukraine.

Thousands of Wagner mercenaries are believed to be on the ground in Ukraine, and the U.S. has decided to sanction members of this group with Yevgenity Prigozhin at the helm.

The United States is sanctioning individuals and entities associated with Russia's Wagner paramilitary group and its leader, Yevgeny Pigozhini, including its main infrastructure and front companies, its battle operations in Ukraine, Russian arms producers and those managing Ukraine's occupied areas from Russia. The move supports our intention to degrade Moscow's capacity to wage war against Ukraine, to promote responsibility for those responsible for fighting Russia's aggression and related abuses, and to put further pressure on Russia's defence sector”, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement Thursday.

This Declaration on Friday, he also shared the US Embassy in Brograd on the official website. In some interviews for foreign media, Kosovo Prime Minister Albin Kurti has said they have evidence that during the barricades in the north, there were also masked persons of the Wagner group, who were aiming at escalation of the situation, as Serbian President Aleksandar Vuciq wanted, the newspaper submits.

“The United States is steadfast in our commitment to Russia's aggression and other destabilising behaviours worldwide”, the statement said. Blinken adds that this decision “will further undermine the Kremlin's ability to arm its war machine that is involved in a war of aggression against Ukraine and that has caused death and irresponsible destruction”.