"I can tell you with absolute certainty, with absolute accuracy, and you can enter my words in any protocols for any institution in the highest levels: as of today, there is not a single private military company (PMC) Wagner fighter, I stress - not a single one - in Sudan. And it has been this way for over two years," Mr Prigozhin said in a post on the Kepka Prigozhina (Prigozhin's Hat) Telegram channel.

He was replying to a journalist for the French-language magazine Jeune Afrique, who asked whether Wagner Group was supporting the Sudanese paramilitary group the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the ongoing clashes with the military.