MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Wednesday dismissed an assertion by Ukrainian military intelligence that members of Russia’s Wagner mercenary group had intended to acquire nuclear devices during a failed mutiny in June.
Ukraine’s military intelligence chief, Kyrylo Budanov, said Wagner fighters reached a nuclear base – known as Voronezh-45 – in an attempt to obtain small Soviet-era nuclear devices, Reuters reported on Tuesday.
The Kremlin has no such information, spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. He added that it the assertion looked like misinformation.
(Reporting by Reuters; editing by Guy Faulconbridge)
