Six Britons acting for Wagner group jailed for arson attack on UK warehouse

Firefighters dealing with the arson attack in east London in March last year, which caused £1m worth of damage. Photograph: London fire brigade/PA Media

Six Britons acting for Russia’s Wagner group have been jailed for setting fire to a London warehouse storing humanitarian aid for Ukraine.

Sentencing the men, a judge at the Old Bailey said they had planned a “campaign of terrorism and sabotage” in the interests of the Russian state.