UK to declare Russian mercenary Wagner Group a terrorist organizationBy Reuters
Published Sep. 6, 2023
Britain is set to declare the Russian mercenary Wagner Group to be a terrorist organization, making it illegal to be a member or to support it, the government said on Wednesday.
A draft order due to be laid before parliament will allow Wagner’s assets to be categorized as terrorist property and seized, the interior ministry said in a statement.
Interior minister Suella Braverman described Wagner as “violent and destructive.”
It had acted as “a military tool of Vladimir Putin’s Russia overseas,” she said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wagner did not exist from a legal point of view.
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https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/uk-to-declare-russias-wagner-a-terrorist-organization/
