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Evening Standard
National
Emily Pennink

Wagner Group stooges jailed for warehouse arson in planned ‘sabotage campaign’

A group of Wagner Group stooges have been jailed for setting fire to a warehouse storing aid to Ukraine, as part of a planned “campaign of terrorism and sabotage” for the Russian state.

The arson attack on the industrial units in Leyton, east London, on March 20 2024, caused about £1 million in damage, put lives at risk, and took 60 firefighters to put out.

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