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Dozens of Russian mercenaries killed in rebel ambush in Mali, in their worst known loss in Africa
CNN ^ | July 29 2024 | Tim Lister

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: mali; russia; zeeperporn
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1 posted on 07/29/2024 11:12:23 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
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To: Alter Kaker

with some help from friends
2 posted on 07/30/2024 3:00:48 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Alter Kaker

Playing possum in a war zone is a tricky maneuver ... being smart is another matter ...

https://x.com/GloOouD/status/1817965720031863168


3 posted on 07/30/2024 3:04:06 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

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I suspect the Russian Merc’s killed were Wegner Group.


4 posted on 07/30/2024 3:07:24 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: PIF

We know for certain that the CIA wasn’t involved. If they were there would have been reports of short, blond, white women in sunglasses dressed as rebels.


5 posted on 07/30/2024 3:24:08 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (Wait! I said that out loud? )
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To: Alter Kaker

Ukraine military intelligence claims role in deadly Wagner ambush in Mali

Malian rebels ‘received necessary information’ to kill fighters from Russian military group last week, GUR says

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/29/ukraine-military-intelligence-claims-involvement-in-deadly-wagner-ambush-in-mali

I guess that clears that question up.

6 posted on 07/30/2024 4:29:32 AM PDT by McGruff (Deep State is running the country.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Fact: they were Wagner troops. That is not in dispute.


7 posted on 07/30/2024 4:34:25 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Alter Kaker

Africa can turn on you in a minute. I once sat in the Lagos airport after an event. My mate and I tried to be “invisible”. We final caught a flight to London. Massive sigh of relief.


8 posted on 07/30/2024 4:44:04 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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9 posted on 07/30/2024 5:11:15 AM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (🦅 MAGADONIAN ⚔️ )
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To: PIF

Pretty sure those same people killed the US SF team a few years ago. Good to see the Ukraine is partnered with Muslim terrorists.


10 posted on 07/30/2024 5:33:47 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: Alter Kaker

Zelinski was visiting the Frontlines to make another of videos containing the Zelenski Curse and Russia bombed the area where his group was traveling.

Is the Z-man dead?


11 posted on 07/30/2024 5:37:59 AM PDT by Jumper
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Anything to kill Russian who killed Ukrainians before being transferred to the Wagner African unit. Good Russian troop=Dead Russian troop


12 posted on 07/30/2024 5:39:17 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF

“Anything to kill Russian who killed Ukrainians before being transferred to the Wagner African unit. Good Russian troop=Dead Russian troop”

This is Ukraine wasting effort on peripheral garbage, like sinking the Russian naval ships. The real battle is being fought on land in the Ukraine. Of course, if you just want to kill Russians like you’re crowing about, it just proves my point about this being just another stupid, bloody ethnic war.


13 posted on 07/30/2024 6:09:20 AM PDT by rxh4n1 ( )
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To: PIF

So you support Muslim terrorists in Africa, the same group which killed Americans? Good to know.


14 posted on 07/30/2024 6:11:18 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: PIF

Just to add, there’s also video of the SF troopers getting killed. You’d probably enjoy it.


15 posted on 07/30/2024 6:12:48 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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To: PIF

I had not read the article. But assumed it was.

Putin is known to retaliate on such things.


16 posted on 07/30/2024 6:42:10 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Texas is not about where you were born, but a Free State of Heart, Mind and Attitude.)
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To: Texas Fossil

Putin is known to retaliate on such things.

Yeah he sending more mercenary troops he cannot afford to send as part of his Africa corp - they will be wiped out as well. All he has is bodies - everything else is tied up in UKR.


17 posted on 07/30/2024 8:00:37 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: rxh4n1

Ethic? No its not its a was of conquest which Russia has been doing off and on since the 17th century.

Not peripheral either since any one or all of those troops can be rotated into the UKR front.


18 posted on 07/30/2024 8:03:39 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Tuaregs did not attack the US.


19 posted on 07/30/2024 8:05:09 AM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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To: PIF
BS.

JNIM is most definitely associated with IS-GS.

And of course, it wasn't the exact same people, but they are allied Jihadist insurgents in Mali/Niger.

Nice folks you're cheering on.

20 posted on 07/30/2024 8:30:37 AM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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