MOSCOW, January 21. /TASS/. The founder of the Wagner private military company, Yevgeny Prigozhin, asked in an open letter addressed to John Kirby, US National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications, what crime his company had committed, according to the letter published on the Telegram channel of Prigozhin’s press service on Saturday.

"Dear Mr. Kirby, Could you please clarify what crime was committed by PMC Wagner?" the letter in English read.

On Friday, Kirby said that the United States had decided to designate the Wagner private military company a transnational criminal organization and to impose more sanctions on it the next week. The US had already put Wagner on the sanctions list before.