Video confirms Ukrainian special forces fought Wagner group in Sudan

Hot Air ^ | October 6, 2023 | John Sexton

[Timber Rattler]

A video released today confirms a story that CNN reported a couple weeks ago. Ukrainian special forces were active in Sudan, attacking the local Rapid Support Forces (RSF) which were trying to overthrow the government with the help of Wagner group mercenaries. The video shows Ukrainian snipers and drone attacks on the RSF.

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At this point you may be wondering what any of this has to do with Ukraine and why Ukrainian special forces would bother getting involved in this battle in Sudan. The answer is that Wagner forces aren’t in Sudan just to get paid. They are there to get gold from Sudan’s mining operations which can be used to help Russia fund the war in Ukraine.

Russia’s plundering of Sudan’s gold goes back to 2014 after the annexation of Crimea when sanctions were placed on Russia. Gold is obviously difficult to transport but it also can’t be stopped by sanctions. Best estimates are that Russia may have siphoned off as much as 32 tons of gold from Sudan in the past decade, with a value of about $1.9 billion.

[Timber Rattler]

The Russians are plundering Sudan's gold to prop up its economy and fund its war in Ukraine.

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[dforest]

They should have been in Ukraine fighting for all that fabulous freedom under dicktater Zelensky and his Cartier jewelry covered wife.

[fireman15]

Your take is interesting and predictable but as usual has little if any connection to reality. Ukraine is there because they are a NATO proxy force and their puppet masters told them to go.

[ConservativeInPA]

See what you Zeepers want to fund. Morons. Go fight in Ukraine and Sudan. There are ZERO American interests in either.

[organicchemist]

Mercenaries fighting mercenaries

[Timber Rattler]

Gold is not an American interest?

[kiryandil]

Your take is interesting and predictable but as usual has little if any connection to reality.

Yep.

FR is overrun with globalist propaganda.

[kiryandil]

Don't you have articles to post that claim that Russian Ukrainian missiles obliterated another market filled with happy Ukrainian peasants?

[adorno]

They should have been in Ukraine fighting for all that fabulous freedom

They were fighting for freedom against the Russians. The Russians were fighting to fund their aggression in Ukraine, so, fighting the Russians was part of the Ukrainians fight for their freedom.

But, how do you explain your moral equivalence, where allowing the Russians to invade and take Ukraine, is the same as fighting against 'diktater Zelensky'? You'd prefer that Ukraine surrender to Russia?

[oil_dude]

Uhhh, aren’t the Ukranians soldiers needed at home?

[Angelino97]

Does Ukraine have the infrastructure to move and station troops in Sudan?

Or did they receive assistance from NATO or the CIA?

[DesertRhino]

And how did these so called “Ukrainians” get to Sudan, establish a base, conduct operations, and fly drones. All of that implies logistics. And then ramp inspections in Khartoum?

Sounds like NATO. But nice sheep-dip. “Ukrainians” indeed.
At most they took a couple of Ukes with along with them.

[dforest]

No. It is to Zelensky though.

[dforest]

It has been 24/7 bullsquat.

[kiryandil]

Anguish about Neocon Ron sinking in the 2024 polls...

[dforest]

They are siding with greasy fat bottom Hillary today.

[srmanuel]

That’s what I was thinking isn’t Ukraine already in a war why are using special forces to fight a war in another country and continent

[freeandfreezing]

his Cartier jewelry covered wife.

Thanks for showing us that you will try to spread every Russian propaganda talking point you can.

Or do you always believe the fake stories from Nigeria?

[freeandfreezing]

You seem to underestimate the skill of Ukrainians on an ongoing basis. You might be surprised to learn that people from other countries also know about things like airplanes and how to fly drones.

Do you think the Ukrainian special forces teams that operate inside Russia are also really NATO forces? That's a lot harder than operating in Sudan.