{"id":1427845,"date":"2023-09-17T13:55:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1427845"},"modified":"2023-09-17T13:55:00","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T17:55:00","slug":"uk-officially-declares-wagner-a-terrorist-organization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/uk-officially-declares-wagner-a-terrorist-organization\/1427845\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Officially Declares Wagner A Terrorist Organization"},"content":{"rendered":"

UK Officially Declares Wagner A Terrorist Organization<\/span><\/p>\n

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On Friday the United Kingdom officially declared the Russian mercenary Wagner Group a terrorist organization<\/strong>, which comes over a week after the measure was first introduced in Parliament.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“This order comes into force with immediate effect and will make belonging to the Wagner Group or actively supporting the group in the UK a criminal [offense], with a potential jail sentence of 14 years which can be handed down alongside or in place of a fine,” the\u00a0UK Home Office<\/a>\u00a0stated.<\/p>\n

Wagner is now on a list along with 78 other proscribed organizations that includes ISIS<\/strong>, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and other better known terror organizations which have lengthy histories of attacking civilians and conducting terror bombings.<\/p>\n

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“The UK has consistently called out the violent and destructive actions of Wagner Group<\/strong>, and included the group in a first wave of sanctions against Russia in early 2022,” the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

UK officials further said Wagner’s new listing as a terrorist organization “sends a clear message that the UK will not tolerate Russia\u2019s proxies and their barbaric actions in Ukraine.” The move to make this happened gained steam after in July the British government\u00a0sanctioned 13 Wagner-linked individuals and businesses.<\/p>\n

But the Biden administration has yet to declare Wagner a terror organization, amid an ongoing fight in Congress where there’s debate over proposed legislation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Biden’s reluctance has angered hawks in Congress. An\u00a0FTO designation<\/a> would impose far-reaching costs on the group and open up more means of targeting the mercenary firm by Washington, including going after third parties that deal with Wagner.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But one Congressional aide previously explained to\u00a0The Hill<\/em>\u00a0that the hesitancy relates to other regions of the world where Wagner is active, and that\u00a0unexpected consequences<\/strong>\u00a0would accrue and impact US relations with certain\u00a0countries<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201c[The State Department] is concerned that if suddenly the FTO designation lands on Wagner,\u00a0that those governments, where there\u2019s various officials that deal with them [Wagner], that they would all, immediately be blocked from travel to the United States and have their assets seized for coming into contact with the FTO<\/strong>. So that\u2019s the nature of their concern,\u201d the aide said.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThey claim they\u2019re not opposed to it on Ukraine grounds,\u00a0but they\u2019re opposed to it on Africa grounds.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

But with\u00a0Yevgeny Prigozhin believed dead after his plane was downed on August 23, and with Wagner having been essentially disbanded and outlawed inside Ukraine, there may be less of Congressional incentive and drive at this point to attempt to push the designation through. However, Wagner is still very active in Africa.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nSun, 09\/17\/2023 – 09:55<\/span><\/p>\n

\u200bhttps:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/geopolitical\/uk-officially-declares-wagner-terrorist-organization<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n

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