This is what Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says.
The Wagner group works as “instructors” in Mali and the Central African Republic, Lavrov said in an interview with the propaganda channel RT.
— This work will of course continue.
The mercenaries of the Wagner group have been active in several countries in Africa in recent years, including Mali, the Central African Republic and Burkina Faso. In the Central African Republic, for example, the mission has come from the government forces, which have been involved in a civil war.
Even in Mali, the Wagner Group has fought on the side of the regime and been accused of serious human rights violations.
Assessors have described the Wagner group’s presence in Africa as a way for the Kremlin to strengthen both Russia’s economic and military influence on the continent.