Wagner plotters jailed for aid blaze

STOOGES for the terrorist Wagner Group have been jailed for setting fire to a warehouse as part of a planned “campaign of terrorism and sabotage” for the Russian state.

- By Emily Pennink

The thugs behind the blaze in Leyton, East London, last year became the first British criminals convicted for acting as proxies for the proscribed group.

Judge Mrs Justice Cheema-Grubb told the Old Bailey: “This case is about the efforts of the Russian Federation to gain pernicious global influence using social media to enlist saboteurs [far] from Moscow.”