The US government designated the Russian paramilitary group known as the Wagner group, as a “significant transnational criminal organization” and sanctioned the group and more than a dozen of its associates and entities. The US Treasury Department sanctioned six individuals and 12 entities, saying the actions were needed to “degrade the Russian Federation’s capacity to wage war against Ukraine.” Treasury’s move was concurrent with that of the Department of State, which posed additional sanctions on those targeting the infrastructure that supports battlefield operations in Ukraine, including pr…