Wagner Loses Veteran Combatant in Mali Ambush

LONDON/DAKAR — Among the dozens of Wagner mercenaries believed to have died after deadly clashes with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali in July, there were Russian war veterans who survived missions in Ukraine, Libya and Syria. Reuters obtained the information from interviews with relatives and a review of social media data. The loss of the experienced fighters highlights the dangers facing Russian mercenaries working for the military junta, which is struggling to contain separatist groups and powerful branches of Islamic State and Al Qaeda in the arid Sahel region of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger. The defeat in Mali casts doubt on whether Moscow, which has acknowledged Wagner's funding and has absorbed many of its fighters into defense ministry forces, will do better than Western and UN forces recently expelled by the junta, said six officials and members working in the region. By cross-referencing public information with online statements from relatives and fighters, interviewing seven relatives and using facial recognition software to analyze battlefield footage verified by Reutersthe news agency was able to identify 23 fighters who went missing in the fighting, after an ambush near Tinzaouaten, a town on the Algerian border. Two others were held …

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