After Syria, Libya and the Central African Republic (CAR), Moscow now unashamedly assumes its strategy of influence in Africa.
Next goal: Mali.
On September 26, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, Sergey Lavrov confirmed that Bamako had approached Russian
"private military companies"
(PMCs) to train its army and try to increase its security, threatened every day. by jihadism and instability.
In New York, the Russian foreign minister admittedly claimed that Moscow was in no way involved and did not name Wagner's group of mercenaries - but this omission did not fool anyone.
We especially remember that, for the first time so clearly, the Russian minister recognized the role of these soldiers of fortune, who would be sponsored by Ilya Prigogine, a sulphurous businessman close to Vladimir Poutine.
A "
shadow army
", even if it is less and less secret, on which the Russian power counts to defend its interests, in Syria,
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