A small number of Afghan fighters are working with the private military company, Wagner, which is fighting in Ukraine, according to the group's chief, Yevgeny Prigozhin.
"The Afghan fighters of the Wagner PMC are working with us in small numbers," Prigozhin said in a statement published by his holding company, Concord. He also said Wagner now also has an artillery unit.
CNN is unable to independently verify those claims.
Some background: Earlier in March, Prigozhin said there were currently no Serbian nationals among the Wagner fighters in Ukraine, after "the last one" left a few months earlier.
Prigozhin was responding to accusations by Serbia's President Aleksandar Vucic that Wagner has tried to recruit Serbs to fight in Ukraine.