Russia’s Wagner to be declared a terrorist organization by UK – BBC

The Russian mercenary Wagner Group is set to be proscribed as a terrorist organization by the UK government, the BBC reported on Tuesday citing a draft order.
The draft order will allow Wagner’s assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized, BBC said, adding that it will be illegal to be a member or support the organization according to the order.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman told the BBC that Wagner was “violent and destructive … a military tool of Vladimir Putin’s Russia”.
“They are terrorists, plain and simple – and this proscription order makes that clear in UK law,” she said.
Proscribing Wagner as a terrorist organization would mean it would be a criminal offence in Britain to belong to or promote the group, arrange or address its meetings, and carry its logo in public.
The Wagner mercenary group was deployed in Ukraine soon after the Russian invasion last year.