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The Wagner Group, also known as PMC Wagner, [1] a Russian paramilitary organization [1] also described as a private military company (PMC), a network of mercenaries, [1] [2] and a de facto unit of the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) or Russia's military intelligence agency, the GRU, [3] has conducted operations in the Central African Republic since late 2018.
Russian mercenaries standing guard near an armored vehicle in the Central African Republic. In 2018, the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner deployed its personnel to the CAR, ostensibly to protect lucrative mines, support the CAR government, and provide close protection for the president, Faustin-Archange Touadéra. [40]
Troops of the Russian 102nd Military Base at Republic Square, Yerevan during the 2016 Armenian Independence Day military parade. This article lists military bases of Russia abroad. The majority of Russia's military bases and facilities are located in former Soviet republics; which in Russian political parlance is termed the "near abroad".
Reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent in parts of Africa, amid an aggressive push by Moscow to lessen Western influence on the continent. Across Africa ...
Russia's top diplomat pledged help and military assistance while on a whirlwind tour of several countries in Africa's sub-Saharan region of Sahel this week, as Moscow seeks to grow its influence ...
On 24 January 2024, military personnel of Russia's Africa Corps, which were intended to replace Wagner, arrived in Burkina Faso to provide security, including for Traoré. It was reportedly planned that the 100 personnel would be expanded to 300. [25] It was revealed that a military base for the Africa Corps was established in Loumbila. [26]
In new satellite imagery, Russia's military appears to be packing up equipment at a key airbase in Syria. The images show transport aircraft ready to load cargo at the Hmeimim Air Base on Friday.
Yeysk air base Krasnodar Krai Ka-27M Il-20M Tsentralny air base Rostov Oblast An-12 An-26 An-148-100E Mi-24P Mi-26 Il-20M Taganrog air base Rostov Oblast Il-76MD Kirovskoye air base Occupied Crimea: Flight Test Centre (Maritime) Feodosia and Dzhankoi Occupied Crimea: 18th Anti-Aircraft Regiment S-400; Pantsir-S1; Dzhankoi helicopter base ...