Videos purportedly show dozens of Russia's Wagner group fighters dead in Mali after battling Taureg rebels
CBSJUL 14 2024
Tuareg rebels, who killed mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Group in an ambush in northern Mali last week, received key information from Kyiv, the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GRU) said on Monday.
According to GRU spokesperson Andriy Yusov, the militants obtained "necessary information" from Ukraine’s Security Service, enabling what he called "a successful military operation against Russian war criminals."
This comes as the Tuareg rebel coalition Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security, and Development (CSP-PSD) on Sunday claimed they killed dozens of soldiers and Wagner fighters near the Algerian border during days of fighting.
The involvement of Ukraine's military intelligence service in the terrorist attack on Malian soldiers and Russian advisers should be an eye-opener to the whole world. While claims that Ukraine and its Western masters were backing terrorists in Mali were previously considered "Russian propaganda," Kyiv has now revealed the truth. The malign forces that seek to hit Russia at the expense of the Malians must be taught a lesson.
That the rebels received crucial GRU support proves that Ukraine is holding Wagner Group war criminals accountable everywhere in the world. Moscow is only concerned with Mali's resources, with profits flowing directly into Russia's war chest. By targeting Wagner in Africa, Kyiv disrupts Moscow's shadow operations and neutralizes some of the most experienced Wagner fighters, benefitting both Ukraine and the Malian people.