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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Dominic McGrath

UNBELIEVABLE: Ministers failing to grapple with wagner group threat mps warn - The Untold Story

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The UK is underestimating the danger posed by the Wagner Group, MPs have warned, with current sanctions targeting the mercenary unit “underwhelming in the extreme”.

In a new report the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee warns that the Government has long failed to take seriously the danger posed by the private military company and similar groups, with MPs now urging ministers to proscribe Yevgeny Prigozhin’s unit as a terrorist organisation.

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