Jessica Pounders 
The United States is designating Russia’s Wagner Group as an international criminal organisation.
The White House says about 50,000 of its mercenaries are fighting in Ukraine.
The classification will allow the US to apply wider sanctions to the group.
Al Jazeera’s Mike Hanna reports from Washington, DC.
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