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Wagner to be declared a terrorist organisation by UK
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
A draft order to be laid in Parliament will allow its assets to be categorised as terrorist property and seized.
The home secretary said Wagner was "violent and destructive... a military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia".
Wagner had played a key role in Russia's invasion of Ukraine, as well as operating in countries in Africa including Syria, Libya and Mali.
The group's name will now be added alongside other proscribed organisations in the UK such as Hamas and Iran's Revolutionary Guard.
The proscription order will make it a criminal offence to support the group - including by arranging a meeting aimed at furthering the organisation's activities.
Earlier this year, Labour's shadow foreign secretary David Lammy urged the government to proscribe Wagner.
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