The UK has officially recognised the Wagner Group (Wagner Private Military Company) as a terrorist organisation.

"The Russian mercenary organisation, Wagner Group, has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation today (September 15) after an order was laid in Parliament on Wednesday (September 6).

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 offence, with a potential jail sentence of 14 years which can be handed down alongside or in place of a fine," stated the UK government’s press service.

Apart from the Wagner Group, there are 78 other organisations on the UK list of terrorist organisations.

In early September, the UK Home Office announced its plans to declare Wagner Group a terrorist organisation.

UK Defence Intelligence suggests that the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin, financier of the Wagner PMC, will have a profoundly destabilising effect on the Wagner Group.