This video capture, taken from footage posted on May 5, 2023 to the Telegram account of the press service of Concord — a company affiliated with the head of the Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin — shows Yevgeny Prigozhin approaching the senior Russian army approaching standing in front of Wagner’s wrestlers at an unknown location
Drones of unknown origin attacked an air force base in the east during the night of Thursday 29th to Friday Libya where mercenaries of the Russian paramilitary group were located wagner, without causing casualties, a military source said. The source, who asked for anonymity, told AFP that drones “of unknown origin hit Al Charruba airbase, located 150 km southeast of Benghazi (east), where elements of the Wagner group were present.” Victims demanded,” he added. Libya is a country mired in a deep political crisis since the ouster of Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, weakened by EastWest divisions and foreign interference. Between 2019 and 2020, Khalifa Hafter, the “de facto” leader of eastern Libya, resorted to fighters from other countries and Wagner Group mercenaries to seize control of the capital, Tripoli. After that, hundreds of members of the Russian paramilitary group remained active in eastern and southern Libya.
*With information from AFP