Posted on 07/29/2024 11:12:23 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
The video is as triumphant as it is gruesome. Rebel fighters, rifles slung over their shoulders, step among more than a dozen bodies strewn across the sand and rocks. Off camera, the pop of gunshots can be heard.
The scene is from another battle in the vast deserts of northern Mali – except that this time the victims were Russians. At the end of the video, the camera pans to a bearded white man on the ground, apparently begging for mercy.
A different video shows several white men, still alive, kneeling amid the wreckage of a vehicle, as guerrilla fighters encircle them. A pickup truck with militants approaches the men, as others kick them in the head.
The Russian mercenaries appear to have been attacked as they were accompanying Malian government troops on patrol last week near the Algerian border, a vast, forbidding region where jihadi and Tuareg groups have long been active.
The attack was claimed by a Tuareg rebels group along with JNIM (Jama’at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin). Known for ad hoc cooperation, they appear to have collaborated to trap the Russian convoy.
JNIM claimed Sunday that a “complex ambush” had wiped out the convoy, killing 50 Russians and a number of Malian soldiers, and published videos showing several vehicles ablaze as well as dozens of bodies in the area. A Tuareg militant group spokesman said some Malian troops and Russian fighters had also been captured during the battle.
According to some unofficial Russian Telegram channels, as many as 80 Russians were killed.
That would make it by far the worst loss for Russian paramilitaries in several years of operating in Africa, as the Kremlin has sought to use proxy forces to challenge Western influence across the Sahel and central Africa and prop up unstable regimes.
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Ukraine continues to get its ass kicked on the battlefield:
Most Decisive Days of The War | Ukraine Actively Fighting A Collapse
LOL
So when do we finally see that Russian Victory Parade?
About the same time we see a unicorn?
“So you support Muslim terrorists in Africa, the same group which killed Americans? Good to know.”
Oh, so the Russians are in Mali to spread Christianity?
Good to know.
Actually, it was the Russian KGB which assisted Jihadis to kill Americans (Iraq, Afgn, etc, etc).
So with Obama’s withdrawal from the ME Russia tries its hand.
Russians die. ...
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So now SOCOM is on Russians’ ass. Payback for all the Americans and Coalition Russians killed and helped Jihadis kill.
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Mali is just another Russian invasion-of-conquest. Which, pretty much the whole world and all people are on to now. Not surprising to see the UKR flag there.
Wait until KGB/FSB’s enemies attack them inside Russia.
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And put your nukes back in your pocket cuz Russia has far fewer population centers and greater dispersed resources than the West.
Lol, wtf are you jabbering about? Put the bottle down, bro.
I get it. You’re a proud Ukrainian national thirsting for revenge. If Ukraine ever got the Donbas back, there would be a bloody payback for the Russians still there.
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