Wagner Group: Government must say if their delay has caused danger to our allies 

EMBARGO: Immediate release

Responding to the news that the Wagner Group has been proscribed as a terrorist organisation, Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs spokesperson, Layla Moran MP said:

"The Liberal Democrats have been calling for this for over a year and it is deeply disappointing that the government has not acted faster. The government took so long to get their act together that the leader of the Wagner Group is now dead and its power is seemingly waning. 

"With Ministers now accepting that Wagner should be treated as a terrorist organisation, they must assure us that their delay in doing so has not caused any danger to British citizens, or our allies, including Ukrainians, during that time. 

"Our support for Ukraine in the fight against Putin’s brutal and illegal war must remain unwavering and declaring Wagner a terrorist organisation is another step in that response."

ENDS