UK government ‘complacent’ in countering growing risk from Wagner Group

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The UK government's sanctions targeting Wagner have been "underwhelming in the extreme" and it should act faster to exploit the mercenary group's current weakness, a new report has found. MPs on the foreign affairs committee say ministers have taken their eye off the ball over the last decade as Wagner expanded its reach across Syria, Ukraine and Africa. The committee's report, entitled 'Guns for Gold: the Wagner Network exposed', details the nefarious, destabilising nature of Wagner, especially in Africa, where the group makes most of its money, and highlights what it describes as government complacency in failing to recognise and...