Over 50 fighters from the Russian-controlled Wagner Group PMC may have been killed in an engagement with Tuareg separatists in the West African country of Mali. This defeat marks the single largest loss of life for Wagner Group guns-for-hire since any day it spent in Ukraine. While this was not the first time a Wagner Group expedition has been soundly spanked — see Three Hundred Dead and Wounded Russians Are a Reminder of US Airpower in Syria and The Mystery of the Dead Russian Mercenaries in Syria Deepens — it is the first time Wagner Group has been roughed up in Africa.
The engagements began when a column of Malian Army and Wagner gunslingers attacked the city of Tinzaouaten near the Algerian border.
Wagner Group gets curbstomped by Tuareg separatists. Check back, story coming soon. pic.twitter.com/ScDq3V5CQN
— streiff (@streiffredstate) July 28, 2024
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