UK to ban Russia’s Wagner Group as ‘terrorist’ organisation: Reports

Britain is to ban Russian mercenary outfit the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation, media reports said on Tuesday (Sep 5), quoting Home Secretary Suella Braverman.

The UK was set to make the Wagner Group a “proscribed” organisation under anti-terror laws, putting it on a par with Islamic State and Al-Qaeda, a report in the Daily Mail said.

“Wagner is a violent and destructive organisation which has acted as a military tool of Vladimir Putin’s Russia overseas,” the newspaper quoted Braverman as saying.

“While Putin’s regime decides what to do with the monster it created, Wagner’s…