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On Friday the United Kingdom officially declared the Russian mercenary Wagner Group a terrorist organization, which comes over a week after the measure was first introduced in Parliament.

“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 UK Home Office stated.

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

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