Ukraine but also Mali, Syria, Libya. the Wagner group, the Russian private military company that is backing Putin in the war (and allegedly tasked with Zelenskyy’s assassination), doesn’t actually only operate in Eastern Europe. At the moment, Russian forces are attempting to consolidate and regroup as they refocus their offensive in the region Donbassin eastern Ukraine, where mercenaries from the Russian private security company associated with it also arrive Kremlin.
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The members of Wagner would be about 6 thousand, of which a thousand were already employed in the area in the last few days Donbass. Among them former police officers and soldiers, and the name derives from the famous German composer Richard Wagner, whose works are said to have inspired the mercenary ideology. Officially, the group has no ties to to fly and with Putin, but in reality several analysts, as well as Western intelligence agencies, believe they have close ties to both the army and Russian intelligence agencies.
“Wagner has been active in Ukraine since its inception explained Rai News Andrea Molle, a sociologist at Chapman University in Orange He worked both in Crimea and in Donbass to protect Russia’s interests in the conflict between the Kyiv government and the professionals represented separatists Russians “.
The Wagner Group in Mali
there France said she was deeply concerned about possible executions by Malian soldiers accompanied by mercenaries from Russia’s private group Wagner, which has a presence in the African country with about 600 men. In particular, we read in a statement released by the Paris Ministry of Foreign Affairs that France is “concerned about information that speaks of massive executions in the country Mura village by elements of the Malian armed forces, accompanied by Russian mercenaries Wagner group which would have caused the deaths of hundreds of civilians.
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And that’s not all because the mercenaries are nicknamed “The Brigade of Darkness” They also took part in the Malian armed forces’ multiday antiterrorist operation in late March in the center of the Sahel, during which more than 200 jihadists were killed. Local sources also identified among the participants in the operation “white paramilitaries identified by local and international sources as belonging to the Russian private security firm Wagner Group”. French newspaper Le Monde wrote this, citing “various Malian, West African and Western security and humanitarian sources” and claiming scores of innocent civilians were also killed.
The center where the massacre took place mura, located in a difficulttoaccess forest area affected by flooding; has been controlled for years by the jihadists of the Katiba «Macina», a group they lead Amadou Koufa, member of the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (GSIM, affiliated with AlQaeda). The Malian army, seeing this enemy advancing ever since the war broke out in the north of the country in 2012, has decided to go on the offensive in Moura with an intervention that has mobilized several dozen military, air force and special forces . . The raid is part of the operation “Kélétigui (“who wages war in Bambara, the language of the main ethnic group of the same name in Mali), which was launched in late 2021 in the center and south of the country the army ( «FaMa»), supported by Russian mercenaries. In Moura, “helicopters flew over a market and fired on escape attempts,” writes the newspaper, citing “an African human rights defender” and adding that “the jihadists got rid of their weapons and mingled with the crowd.” Then “Malian and Russian soldiers were landed and it was the beginning of the massacre” which was also committed by rallying the men and killing many by summary executions.