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United Kingdom declares Wagner group a terrorist organization

UK Parliament will vote on Wednesday on a draft measure that would ban the Russian paramilitary association.

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin addresses his units withdrawing from Bakhmut, the city captured from the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin / Cordon Press.

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Rosana Rábago Sainz

The Wagner group will be declared a terrorist organization in the United Kingdom. On Tuesday it was announced that Interior Minister, Suella Braverman, had sent a draft to parliament with a bill that would ban the Russian paramilitary association. A rule that, according to Braverman in statements to the BBC, makes it clear that Wagner members are "terrorists":

Wagner is a violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia overseas. While Putin's regime decides what to do with the monster it created, Wagner's continuing destabilising activities only continue to serve the Kremlin's political goals. They are terrorists, plain and simple - and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law.

The measure will be voted on Wednesday and, if approved, would make the Wagner group a "banned" organization in the United Kingdom. This means the organization would be prosecuted under the anti-terrorism law, joining groups such as the Islamic State and Al Qaeda.

The Wagner Group, "threat to global security"

The UK has put forward reasons that would justify its decision. According to Braverman, the work carried out by the Wagner group shows that the paramilitary group of Russian origin is a "threat to global security." Specifically, the minister refers to the work that Wagner carried out during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, "killing and torturing Ukrainian citizens."

They are also accused of crimes carried out during several missions in Syria and in African countries such as Libya and Mali. Britain said last July that the Wagner group carried out "executions and torture in Mali and the Central African Republic." All this, Suella Braverman argues, would justify the nation declaring the Wagner group a terrorist organization.

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