Prigozhin's Successor Died In Mali: He Fought In Bakhmut And Soledar, Before

New details of Tuaregs' victory over the Wagnerites.

In northwest Africa, Tuareg rebels defeated a detachment of the Russian Wagner PMC, who tried to capture the city of Tinzahuaten in Mali. Some of the militants were captured, but most were killed and among them was one of the Russian commanders who captured the Ukrainian cities of Bakhmut and Soledar, reports obozrevatel.com.

This is a mercenary named "Lotos", who headed the PMC after the death of its financier Yevgeny Prigozhin and former leader Dmitry Utkin. Data on the losses of the armed group in one of the countries of the African Sahel were told by Russian pro-war bloggers.

Earlier, there were photos and videos of the defeat of a column of government forces and the Wagnerites in the Republic of Mali near the border with Algeria. The rebels announced the elimination of dozens of Russian militants and junta soldiers. They also shot down a military Mi-24 helicopter belonging to the Malian Armed Forces. Although officials claimed that it “made an emergency landing due to technical problems.”

The defeat of the column of Malian troops and mercenaries of the PMC was confirmed in a conversation with AFP by a local official. According to him, they lost at least 17 people killed. But Russian Z-channels write about about 50 dead.

The event stirred up the Russian pro-war community of bloggers, who have been distributing these footage for two days, reporting "terrible losses" among the PMC members. They named several mercenaries whose deaths were indeed confirmed.

Among those killed was the commander who fought for Bakhmut and Soledar: new details of the defeat of the Wagnerites in Mali. Photo and video

"A helicopter tried to help the Wagner PMC convoy ambushed in Mali. It was hit. Some of the Wagnerites were taken prisoner, now they are being ransomed ", "It's really true, there are a lot of our guys killed and captured in Mali, the guys from the Wagner. They were ambushed", " Unfortunately, our good friend, the admin of the Grey Zone channel (call sign "White"), was also killed in battle, "several propagandists wrote.

They first published a photo of the alleged admin of the specified channel. ASTRA investigators (the publication calls itself an independent Russian media) noted: if this is true, then we are talking about a 31-year-old native of the Lipetsk region of the Russian Federation Nikita Fedyanin.

He lived in Moscow, five years ago on the YouTube channel he published the video "Special Purpose Center of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation".

These were footage of the work of the FSB officers in the mountainous area, at the end of which a monument to the dead members of the unit was shown. In the comments, Belyi also answered whether the video showed Hard Ingush, a security blogger who at that time wrote online about Russian operations in the northern Caucasus (probably he was familiar with him and also served in this region).

"The owner of this channel was recorded in contacts with other people as "Nikita Fabos (Msk)" and "Reputable Person". Fedyanin also uploaded a picture on the VK Russian social media, where his head is substituted for a photo of Putin against the background of the Kremlin," ASTRA writes.

In the last post for his Z-channel, Belyi admitted that the Wagnerites are in one of the countries of the African Sahel, where they are "hot in a literal and figurative sense," and cynically added: "That's what we love."

The Russians also report that another well-known commander of the Wagner PMC, Anton "Lotos" Elizarov, who led the invaders' offensive on Soledar and Bakhmut during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, was killed in Mali.

"Good news continues to come from the Mali direction – according to the channels associated with "Wagner", it also became known about the elimination of the person who headed the PMC after the murder of Putin's cook and Nazi Utkin, namely the commander with the call sign "Lotos". Not very media, but very famous in those circles 'katsap', who participated in the hostilities in Ukraine, separate in the occupation of Soledar, "South Ukrainian Volunteer Army Speaker Serhiy Bratchuk commented on the hysteria in Russian publics.

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