(To Francis Matera) How controversial is the world. While we provide weapons and intelligence to fight the private company in Ukraine Wagner, notoriously under orders from Moscow, on the other hand we deal in Sudan with the paramilitary group RSF for the safe evacuation of our compatriots. What's wrong? Nothing, just the fact that the RSF receives arms directly from Wagner, via Libya, to fight the regular Sudanese army, which came to power with a coup, while awaiting democratic elections. Free elections never materialised. The international newspaper La Stampa revealed the international intrigue.
Satellite images analyzed by the observatory All Eyes on Wagner, writes the Italian newspaper, show a Russian transport plane shuttling between two Libyan airbases owned by Haftar and used by the Wagner paramilitary group. The intensification of the aircraft's routes Ilyushin-76 it begins two days before the outbreak of hostilities in Sudan, and continues for a week. The plane from the airbase Khadim in Libya Thursday April 13 en route to the Syrian coastal city of Latakia — where Russia has a major air base. From Latakia back to Khadim.
The next day, he flies back to another Haftar airbase in Jufra, in the southernmost part of eastern Libya, landing in a rather marginal and covered area. The Ilyushin-76 departs for Latakia on Tuesday before returning again to Khadim and then to Jufra. That day, according to regional and Sudanese sources, the Russia reportedly dropped surface-to-air missiles on militia positions of Dagalo in north-western Sudan, in an area close to Tom Camp, where a pick-up patrol would later arrive to recover the load.
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For years Give him it has been a key beneficiary of Russian involvement in Sudan, as a recipient of arms and training from Moscow, CNN sources say. Also Haftar claimed Give him, although the person concerned denies any side in the affairs of the neighboring country.
Prigozhin denies any involvement in Sudan: “Wagner is in no way involved in the conflict, the rumors circulating are only provocations".
The Russian paramilitary group is now dominant in Mali, Burkina Faso, Mozambique and after having established its operations center in the Central African Republic it could continue its influence in other states.
In Sudan, the Wagner company is very active in wanting to build a military base in Port Sudan on the Red Sea, together with the extraction of gold and the training of fighters.