Wagner Group to be Proscribed as a Terrorist Organisation by UK Government

An expert on Iran has accused the UK government of “hypocrisy” for banning Wagner but not the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Wagner Group to be Proscribed as a Terrorist Organisation by UK Government
Russian police officers patrol in an area outside PMC Wagner Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on June 24, 2023. Olga Maltseva/AFP via Getty Images
Chris Summers
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Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has said the Russian mercenary group Wagner is to be proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the British government.

A draft order is being laid before Parliament on Wednesday but Mr. Shapps, who only took over the job from Ben Wallace last week, defended the delay in banning Wagner, whose founder and boss Yevgeny Prigozhin died in a suspicious plane crash last month.
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