25 September 2023 | State Threat, Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Oliver Hair ASyI,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: On 15 September 2023, the Wagner Group was proscribed as a terrorist organisation by the UK Home Office. The proscription makes belonging to the Wagner Group or actively supporting the group in the UK a criminal offence. [1] The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company (PMC) founded in 2014 by Yevgeny Prigozhin.[2] The group has been a key pillar of Russian state power policy and has operated in a series of countries including most notably, Ukraine, Syria, the Central African Republic,...
13 May 2023 | Threat Analysis, Threat Landscape
Author: Becca Stewart,Threat Analyst Read Time: 3 minutes Tags: As of 9th May 2023, media reporting has suggested that the British Government plans formally to declare the Wagner Group as a terrorist organisation within weeks.[1] Proscription of the Russian mercenary force responsible for significant aggressions within the Russia-Ukraine war has allegedly been in development for the past two months. The Wagner Group is a Russian private military company with around 50,000 troops consisting of former soldiers (including from Russia’s special forces),...
