Kremlin, commenting on UK Wagner ban, says group does not exist as legal entity

FILE PHOTO-Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov attends an annual end-of-year news conference of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in Moscow, Russia, December 23, 2021. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the Wagner mercenary group did not exist from a legal point of view, after being asked to comment on a British decision to designate it as a terrorist organisation.

Britain's interior minister Suella Braverman described Wagner, a private militia formerly led by the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, as "violent and destructive" and said it acted as a "military tool of Vladimir Putin's Russia overseas".