The UK government has announced sanctions against three mercenary groups linked to Russia, including Wagner’s successor organisation Africa Corps.
‘These sanctions will address Russia’s malign activities in Libya, Mali and the CAR (Central African Republic) and will expose and counter Russia’s illegal activities in Africa,’ the statement said.
Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group or its successor, the Africa Corps, are currently providing assistance in several African countries and Russian ‘advisers’ are co-operating with local authorities.
According to British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, the sanctions will follow Britain’s ‘pushback on the Kremlin’s corrosive foreign policy, undermining Russia’s attempts to promote instability in Africa and disrupting supplies of vital equipment for Putin’s war machine in Ukraine’.
Suppliers to Russia’s military production and the Russian intelligence organisation GRU, which London says carried out a chemical weapons attack on the British city of Salisbury in 2018, are also targeted.
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