The US army has confirmed the presence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group in Mali, which the African nation’s government has denied amid increasingly strained relations with the West. “Wagner is in Mali,” General Stephen Townsend, the head of US Africa Command, said in an interview with Voice of America. “They are there, we think, numbering several hundred now.” “They’re deploying there, supported by the Russian military, Russian Air Force airplanes are delivering them,” he said, directly tying the Wagner group to the Kremlin, a link that Moscow denies. “The world can see this happen…

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