UK Steps Up Efforts to Counter Mercenary Threats
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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.