Wagners crushed in Africa. Only the dead are left

A erstwhile commander of 13. Wagner Group branch said on the channel on the Telegram portal, belonging to the extremist diversion-attack group "Rusich" that according to his information over 80 Russian mercenaries were killed in the conflict and 15 were captured.

After the Rebellion Yevgenija Prigozhina In June 2023, Wagner Group was officially dissolved. It was replaced by the African Corps subordinate to the Ministry of Defence in Moscow, but a long-standing name is frequently used. any vasner troops besides operate independently of the African Corps.

This is most likely the most bloody defeat of Russian mercenaries carried abroad (except of course fighting in Ukraine).

Important people died

The rebels destroyed or captured armored vehicles, tankers and trucks. They besides damaged the Mi-24P chopper that evacuated the wounded. The device then crashed during an emergency landing on the roof of a building in Kidal, a fewer 100 kilometres away.

31-year-olds died in conflict Nikita Fiedianin, pseudonym “White”, blogger leading the propaganda channel Grey region on the Telegram portal, as well as commander of the 13th Wagner Storm Branch Sergei Shevchenko (Call sign ‘Prud’).

According to any information, he was killed or taken prisoner alone Anton Jelizarov‘Lotos’. He has been considered the actual commander of the full Wagner Group since its co-founder Dmitri Utkin He died with his boss Evgeny Prigozhyn in August 2023 in a plane crash, which was surely caused by putinists.

The last radio announcement of the cornered mercenaries was given on July 27. He sounded dramatic: “There were 3 of us left. We proceed to fight." 2 days later, the Wagner Group published a message, which is rare. She stated that the mercenaries were victorious, but abruptly a sandstorm broke out that enabled the rebels to regroup and concentrate a 1000 militants.

Did they receive information from Ukraine?

Andrij Jusov, a spokesperson for Ukrainian military intelligence, revealed on 29 July in the news programme “24/7” that the rebels in Mali received information from the Ukrainian services that enabled them to operate effectively against “Russian war criminals”. He said it wasn't over. The Tuaregs consider themselves allies of Kiev fighting for a common cause. After the winning fight they posed with the developed flag of Ukraine.

Wagner group mercenaries have been operating in Mali since 2021. They were summoned by the military junta ruling in Bamako, the country's capital. Malian generals needed brutal Russian soldates to fight rebels from the nomadic Tuareg people. In 2012, this cultural group sparked an uprising to gain independence. Jihadists are besides fighting the Malian government. There are sometimes clashes between Tuaregs and Islamists, and the second tend to attribute to themselves the successes of nomads.

Mali's military authorities felt that the uprising would be better handled by cruel Russian mercenaries than their earlier allies—French soldiers who were not inclined to kill innocents or burn down villages. Wagnerists don't have that kind of scruples. Malian investigator Mohamed Issouf Ag Mohamed and Brazilian prof. of African past Mariana Bracks Fonseca, who paper the actions of the Russian “dogs of war”, claim that mercenaries terrorize nomadic peoples in Mali and “do not spare aged people, women and children whose homes are burned, and the land, livestock and tiny property robbed”.

The defeat of Putin's “dogs of war” in the Black Land can benefit Ukraine. According to the American Institute for War Studies, Moscow does not intend to quit influence in Africa and may send to Mali mercenaries troops presently operating in the Kharkiv Oblast.