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House of Commons
Foreign Affairs Committee

Guns for gold: the Wagner Network exposed

Seventh Report of Session 2022–23

Report, together with formal minutes relating to the report

Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 18 July 2023

HC 167 incorporating HC 1248
Published on 26 July 2023
by authority of the House of Commons

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Current membership

Alicia Kearns MP (Chair) Conservative, Rutland and Melton)
Saqib Bhatti MP (Conservative, Meriden)
Sir Chris Bryant MP (Labour, Rhondda)
Liam Byrne MP (Labour, Birmingham, Hodge Hill)
Neil Coyle MP (Labour, Bermondsey and Old Southwark)
Drew Hendry MP (Scottish National Party, Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey)
Andrew Rosindell MP (Conservative, Romford)
Bob Seely MP (Conservative, Isle of Wight)
Henry Smith MP (Conservative, Crawley)
Royston Smith MP (Conservative, Southampton, Itchen)
Graham Stringer MP (Labour, Blackley and Broughton)

The following were also members of the Committee during the 2022–23 session:

Tom Tugendhat MP (Conservative, Tonbridge and Malling), Stewart Malcolm
McDonald MP (Scottish National Party, Glasgow South)

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Contents

  1. Summary    		3

  2. 1A decade of entrenching Russian interests abroad    		5
  3. Growth of the network7
  4. The perceived benefits of Wagner18
  5. A direct and indirect tool of the Russian state18
  6. Incentives for buyers19
  7. The price of Wagner military deployments21
  8. Operating with impunity21
  9. Delivering unreliable results24
  10. Thriving in instability24
  11. Coming out of the shadows: Renewed Illegal Invasion of Ukraine27
  12. National security implications28

  13. 2Responses to the Wagner Network    		31
  14. The UK's general response31
  15. A focus on Ukraine, not Africa32
  16. Cross-departmental working33
  17. Specific actions taken by the UK Government34
  18. Tracking and sanctioning34
  19. Carrot and stick diplomacy40

  20. 3What next?    		45
  21. What next for Wagner?45
  22. What next for 'PMCs'?46

  23. Conclusions and recommendations    		52

  24. Appendix 1    		59

  25. Appendix 2    		73

  26. Formal minutes    		76

  27. Witnesses    		77

  28. Published written evidence    		78

  29. List of Reports from the Committee during the current Parliament    		79

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