The Tuaree rebels in Mali stated that in July more than 80 Russians from the Wagner PEC were killed

Earlier, the insurgent movement "Permanent Strategic Frames of Peace, Security and Development" (CSP) stated that dozens of people were killed in clashes near the northern border town of Tinsauaten. Even before CSP announced the last number of dead, these losses, apparently, became the most serious defeat They are leading a guerrilla war in the Sater region in West Africa.

Neither the small nor the Wagner PEC reported how many soldiers they lost in clashes, although in a rare statement of July 29, PEC representatives stated that they had suffered "serious losses". The Mali authorities also recognized heavy losses in battle without naming numbers. The obvious defeat, apparently, did not hurt the prospects of Russian-Mali cooperation.

On Thursday, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia said that the Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov discussed with his Mali colleague and expressed "the firm intention of Russia and continue to provide the necessary support", in particular on socio-economic issues, increasing the combat capability of the armed forces and the training of military personnel. The statement does not mention recent fighting.

The Russians have been in Mali, as an army that seized power as a result of two coups in 2020 and 2021, expelled French troops and UN troops, and hired Wagner PEC. The Mali authorities accused Tuaregs and local jihadist groups of cooperation, but in her statement, the CSP stated that she was fighting alone "exclusively from the beginning to the end of" recent clashes.

According to the newspaper, Tuaregi captured seven small soldiers and militants of the Wagner PEC, as well as seized a large number of weapons, ammunition, vehicles and other equipment. Tuaregs live in the Sahara Desert, which includes parts of the North Small. They launched an uprising in 2012, demanding an independent homeland called Azavad. We will remind, in Mali, as reported by Roszmi, the mercenary-vagner and presenter of Telegram-channel Grey Zone Nikita Fedyanin was liquidated.