Putin Says Kremlin has Nothing to Do With Mali Mercenaries
President Vladimir Putin has stressed that his government has nothing to do with the Russian mercenary company Private Military Group, better known as the Wagner Group.
These mercenaries are mainly active in Africa, where they protect companies or extraction areas for minerals and participate in the struggle, such as in Mali, Libya, and the Central African Republic.
After a conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Moscow, Putin said that countries themselves approach mercenaries, conclude contracts, and Wagner pursues commercial goals. "Those countries can decide for themselves who takes care of their security, isn't that also NATO's logic?" Putin wondered aloud.
European countries have recently complained about Wagner's activities in Mali, where France, in pa...