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The UK have laid out a draft order that will see any assets of the Wagner Group as terrorist property and seized.

The Home Secretary will make Wagner a proscribed organisation under anti-terror laws. She described Wagner as terrorists, plain and simple.

Founded in 2014, Wagner is a Russian mercenary group that have taken part in campaigns in various African countries, in Syria and in Ukraine.

General Andrey Averyanov, head of the Covert Operations Unit in the GRU, was seen at the Russia-Africa summit talking with African leaders. It is suspected he will be the new leader.

It was only a matter of time before Yevgeny Prigozhins death. Putin has a history of hunting his traitors, Prigozhin was bound to face the same fate, writes Alicia Kearns.

EXCLUSIVE: If the British Government declared Wagner a terrorist organisation, it could provide the legal cover for Britains Armed Forces to take them on, an expert has said.

Thousands of supporters of the West African countrys new Junta took to the streets today after last weeks coup, many of them waving Russian flags.

Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki claimed Saturday that the Wagner Group’s mercenaries in Belarus were moving closer to the border of Poland, the Associated Press reported. Morawiecki said the troops are close to the Suwalki Gap, an important portion of Poland between Belarus and Kaliningrad, a Russian exclave. Poland is a member of NATO and…

Britain has “underplayed and underestimated” the threat posed by the Russian Wagner mercenary group and should ban it as a terrorist organization, a powerful committee of U.K. lawmakers said Wednesday. The House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said the sanctions imposed by Britain on Wagner are “underwhelming” and U.K. authorities have done little to track…