Mali, the Russian mercenaries of Wagner in Timbuktù a month after the withdrawal of the French military

Eventually the Russians also arrived in Timbuktù. In the symbolic city of northern Mali, the “Wagner” contractors have deployed men and vehicles at the airport, as they have been doing for months in the rest of the country to support the colonel’s coup junta Assimi Goita.

On the other hand, in that airport until mid-December there were still armored vehicles and paratroopers from the French mission “Barkhane”, soldiers engaged since 2013 against the jihadist terrorists of Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.