Defeating Wagner Fighters In Mali: Russian Federation May Remove Part Of Troops From Ukraine

Russian troops will be withdrawn from an important section of the front.

The Wagner Group recently suffered losses in Mali. As a result, the Kremlin will need a large-scale replacement of fighters in Africa with members of the Russian Defence Ministry's African Corps, part of which has recently been deployed to Kharkiv Region to support the occupiers' offensives.

According to a report by analysts at the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW), several prominent critical Russian military bloggers claim that the Russian Defence Ministry is gloating over the Wagner Group's losses and suggest that the Russian military leadership is using the incident as an excuse to halt the deployment of Wagner fighters to the Sahel and replace them entirely with units of the MoD's African Corps.

Some Russian bloggers have quoted an unidentified source in the Putin administration as saying that African Corps personnel will replace Wagner troops in the entire ‘Sahel Three’ (Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger).

ISW analysts suggest that the African Corps probably lacks the current capabilities to properly replace the Wagner Group, particularly in Mali, as elements of the corps were recently deployed to Ukraine to participate in offensive efforts in the northern Kharkiv region.

‘Large-scale replacement of Wagner after losses such as those suffered during the recent ambush would likely result in the redeployment of some African Corps fighters in Mali away from the front lines in Ukraine, and the Russian military command probably does not view full replacement of Wagner in Mali or elsewhere in Sahel as a priority at this time,’ the ISW report said.

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