2 minutes agoThis country officially declares the Wagner group a terrorist organisation
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(3 years ago)Great Britain has officially declared the Russian mercenary group Wagner as a terrorist organisation after an order was issued to parliament and backed by British lawmakers on September 6th. The order in question makes it illegal to be a member or to support him, writes CNN. This command comes into effect with [...]
Great Britain has officially declared the Russian mercenary group Wagner as a terrorist organisation after an order was issued to parliament and backed by British lawmakers on September 6th.
The order in question makes it illegal to be a member or to support him, writes CNN.
This order comes into effect immediately and will make a criminal offence belonging to the Wagner Group or active support of the group in the United Kingdom, with a possible sentence of 14 years in prison”, the UK government said Friday in a press release.
Wagner's boss, Yevgeny Pigozin, and the group's field commander, Dmitry Utkin, died last month in what Western officials believe was a deliberate plane crash, two months after Pgozhh organised a short-lived rebellion against the Kremlin, the biggest threat to Russian President Vladimir Putin in more than two decades of power.
Most security experts suspect that Wagner will survive in its current form without Prigozhi, but this has not prevented the United Kingdom from deciding against the group.
