The Facts

• Tuareg rebels who killed mercenaries of the Russian Wagner Group in an ambush in northern Mali last week received key information from Kiev, according to the Ukrainian military intelligence service (GRU) on Monday.

• 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 mercenaries in an ambush near the Algerian border during days of fighting.According to GRU spokesperson Andrii Yusov, the militants obtained "necessary information" from Ukraine’s Security Service, enabling what he called "a successful military operation against Russian war criminals."

• Following the attack, the Tuareg rebels reportedly expressed their solidarity with Ukraine’s battle „against Russian criminals“ offering to extraditing Russian prisoners to the Ukraine „as a sign of support and solidarity.“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 mercenaries in an ambush near the Algerian border during days of fighting.