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- The paramilitary group Wagner will continue to operate in Mali and the Central African Republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.. He said that the organization’s rebellion in Russia would not affect relations between Moscow and its allies. Wagner members are working in Mali and the Central African Republic as instructors.
The paramilitary group Wagner will continue to operate in Mali and the Central African Republic, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.. He said that the organization’s rebellion in Russia would not affect relations between Moscow and its allies. Wagner members are working in Mali and the Central African Republic as instructors.
The Russian foreign minister said that Europe and France having abandoned the CAR and Mali, those countries had turned to Russia and Wagner to provide military instructors and ensure the security of their leaders.
For the West, Wagner is an instrument of Russian influence, designed to advance Moscow’s interests and compete with those of the Europeans. The armed group is also accused of committing atrocities wherever it is deployed, and of extorting natural resources. Russia always denied such assertions.
Mr. Lavrov also took the view that the armed rebellion of Wagner’s leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and his men deployed in Ukraine would change nothing in Russia’s relations with its allies. However, analysts maintain that there may be perceptible change in the working of the Wagner in Africa. First, it is still not clear, presently who heads Wagner and secondly what is going to be its organic relations with powers that matter in Russia. They feel that it may take some time at least to gauge the future course of action of the Wagner, which is termed as the private army of Vladmir Putin, which revolted against the defence administration of Russia.
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The Russian capital and the regions of Rostov, which borders Ukraine, and Lipetsk stepped up their security arrangements. The authorities in Moscow and the surrounding area say they have declared a counterterrorism state of emergency against the background of the armed uprising. Wagner fighters are active in African countries such as Mali and Central African Republic, where they have helped the government of President Faustin-Archange Touadéra train the army and to maintain relative security in and around the capital Bangui.
