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defenses which were operated either by Russian PMCs or the LNA. A GNA official also stated that Russian PMCs appeared to be responsible. An estimated 25 Wagner military technicians were thought to had established transmission towers and platforms atop buildings south of Tripoli, which lead to the bringing down of the drones by jamming of control signals for the aircraft.
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In early May, according to a UN report, between 800 and 1,200 Wagner PMCs were deployed in Libya in support of the LNA. They were operating in specialized military tasks, including sniper teams. The UN also confirmed the presence of Syrian fighters who were transported to Libya since the start of the
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targeted an ammunition convoy, as well as a fuel convoy, reportedly destroying six trucks. Wagner PMCs were claimed to be in the vehicles, with one of them being killed and another wounded. On 22 April, the GNA's Interior Minister accused the Wagner Group of carrying out a chemical attack against its
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injured, Western and Libyan officials stated that during the first week of September more than 100 Wagner PMCs arrived on the frontline to provide artillery support for Haftar's forces. Following the GNA's recapture of a village south of Tripoli from the LNA, the GNA found the abandoned belongings of
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Towards the end of June, the Al Jufra airbase was reportedly turned into a Wagner Group command center for operations to take control of the country's southern oil fields and the PMCs at the base were said to include Ukrainians and Serbians, besides the Russian contractors. Subsequently, Wagner PMCs
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and advanced into several districts of southern Tripoli, during which they captured three military camps. During the fighting, the GNA reported three Wagner PMCs were killed, with the body of one of them being seized. The first Syrian fighter from the force recruited to support the Wagner Group also
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A Wagner headquarters was set up at a hospital in the town of Esbia, 50 kilometers south of Tripoli, where the PMCs were stated to have detained and shot the family of a man who had stumbled upon the contractors by mistake. Three people were killed, while the man and another family member managed to
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on the outskirts of Tripoli, as well as at least in one residential neighborhood of the capital. According to Jalel Harchaoui, a Libya expert at The Netherlands Institute of International Relations, the PMCs' toughness, lethal techniques and coordination discipline instilled fear in the GNAs' forces
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On 23 October 2020, a new cease-fire agreement was reached in Libya, with peace talks to subsequently begin. The talks started on 12 November. However, the same day, the GNA's army stated it would not accept further talks with the presence of the PMCs and their anti-aircraft systems in Sirte, after
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Mid-September, it was confirmed the Wagner Group was conducting air-strikes in support of the LNA, with two Mig-29s piloted by the PMCs crashing, one at the end of June, and the other in early September. A video of the second jets' pilot circulated online, showing him being rescued by an LNA combat
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and land mines. A total of 14 Mig-29 and Su-24 fighter jets had also been delivered. According to a UN report, 338 Russian military flights from Syria to Libya were conducted between November 2019, and July 2020, in support of the Wagner Group. In early August, a 21-vehicle Wagner convoy moved from
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On 12 December, a new assault by the LNA was launched towards Tripoli, with the LNA making several advances. It was said the Russian PMCs were leading the LNA assault. Over a two-day period, the PMCs, who were equipped with sophisticated drone-jamming technology and artillery, launched 2,500 mortar
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Subsequently, at the sites of various clashes along the frontline, GNA militiamen were recovering Russian material being left behind. By early November, the number of PMCs had grown to 200 or 300 and Wagner snipers were causing a number of casualties among GNA frontline fighters, with 30 percent of
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airline. The Syrians numbered less than 2,000 and were made up of former rebels recruited by the Wagner Group, under Russian military supervision, to fight alongside them. Mid-May, GNA artillery reportedly shelled a Wagner base that was used for observation, intelligence and organizing operations.
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revealed that the United Arab Emirates was funding the Russian PMCs in Libya and was the main financial supporter of the Wagner Group. By late January 2021, the PMCs built a large trench, or a series of trenches, extending about 70 kilometers from Sirte towards the Wagner stronghold of Jufra. The
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Following the collapse of the LNA's offensive on Tripoli, the GNA launched an assault on the LNA-held city of Sirte in early June, managing initially to capture parts of the city, before a LNA counter-attack pushed the GNA's forces back. Subsequently, while the GNA was preparing a second assault,
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was preparing bipartisan sanctions against the PMCs in Libya, whose number had risen to 1,400, according to several Western officials. The GNA, for its part, stated it documented between 600 and 800 PMCs in the country. These included 25 pilots, trainers and support crew, with the pilots flying
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On 20 November, an Italian military drone crashed near Tripoli, with the LNA claiming it had shot it down. The next day, a US military drone was also shot down over Tripoli, although the LNA stated it had been brought down by mistake. According to the US, the drone was shot down by Russian air
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trench was bolstered by a series of elaborate fortifications designed to disrupt land attacks. More than 30 defensive positions were dug along the trench with key positions near the Jufra air base and at the Brak airfield further south, where radar defenses were installed and fortified.
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However, at the end of March, the GNA claimed to have targeted a building in the Qasr Bin Ghashir area south of Tripoli which had been occupied by Russian PMCs that had been responsible for several recent attacks on Tripoli neighborhoods. On 2 April, GNA airstrikes in two areas south of
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report did not "correspond to reality", although RBK TV also confirmed the Russian military deployment to Libya. By early March 2019, according to a British government source, around 300 Wagner PMCs were in Benghazi supporting Haftar. At this time, the LNA was making
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or artillery projectiles and brought down a Turkish drone which was deployed by the GNA in an attempt to deter the LNA push. The drone was the sixth of seven deployed by Turkey in June that had been brought down by this point. In early January 2020,
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stated that information from Libyan agencies and demining groups linked the Wagner Group to the use of banned landmines and booby traps in Libya. These mines killed at least three Libyan deminers before the mines' locations were identified.
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In July, the United States imposed sanctions on Wagner individuals and entities for the planting of landmines in and around Tripoli. Meanwhile, according to AFRICOM, Russia continued to supply the LNA through the Wagner Group with
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Russian PMCs were planting landmines in and around Sirte to "obstruct the advance" of the GNA. Mid-June, AFRICOM reported one of the newly arrived Russian aircraft was spotted taking off from the Al Jufra Airbase, while a
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fighter jet was seen operating near Sirte. There was concern the aircraft were being operated by the PMCs. At the end of the month, the GNA claimed a Wagner rocket attack west of Sirte left one civilian dead.
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Following Turkey's and Russia's call for a ceasefire in Libya on 8 January 2020, the GNA claimed a significant number of Wagner fighters had withdrawn from the frontline via helicopters to the
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to support Wagner's PMCs. The jets arrived from an airbase in Russia via Syria, where they were repainted to conceal their Russian markings. The LNA denied it received new fighter jets.
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and pro-LNA Sudanese mercenaries, in coordination with a pro-LNA militia known as the Petroleum Facilities Guard, entered and secured Libya's largest oil field, the
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the deaths in one unit being due to the Russian snipers. On one day, nine GNA fighters were killed by sniper fire. In another incident at the frontline town of
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forces in the Salah al-Din area of southern Tripoli. According to the Minister, Wagner snipers shot dead GNA fighters who had succumbed to nerve agents.
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Jufra to Sirte. Concurrently, the LNA, supported by the PMCs, were reinforcing the Jarif valley south of Sirte with ditches and barriers.
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helicopter after he parachuted and landed in the desert. Towards the end of September, a helicopter transporting ammunition crashed in
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shells and thus artillery fire had become more precise through laser designation from ground spotters. They were also reportedly using
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the LNA conducted live-fire exercises and the PMCs blocked their delegation from landing in Sirte, according to the GNA.
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At the end of October 2019, Facebook suspended accounts it said were part of a Russian disinformation campaign linked to
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reported the Russian Air Force had transported fighters belonging to two other Russian private military companies,
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and Libya's largest oil field. By 3 March, most of the south, including the border areas, was under LNA control.
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Libya's road to peace shadowed by tensions as GNA army refuses to negotiate under duress of mercenaries
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in the country's lawless south, capturing a number of towns in quick succession, including the city of
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UN salutes new Libya ceasefire agreement that points to 'a better, safer, and more peaceful future'
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Journal, Raja Abdulrahim | Photographs by André Liohn for The Wall Street (1 October 2019).
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died. Following these advances, Wagner's PMCs started to evacuate via Bani Walid's airport to
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AFRICOM: Russian fighter jets flown by mercenaries are conducting combat activities in Libya
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Libyan government has had enough with Russian mercenaries, "determined" to liberate country
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The Head of the Russian contact group on intra-Libyan settlement, Lev Dengov, stated that
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cited British intelligence officials that two Russian military bases had been set up in
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coast. Towards the end of July, "foreign mercenaries" were also reported to be at the
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Russian mercenaries enter Libyan oil field, as more mercenaries arrive from Syria
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Faulkner, Christopher (June 2022). Cruickshank, Paul; Hummel, Kristina (eds.).
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Humiliated Russian mercenaries Wagner Group make hasty retreat from Tripoli
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that all of the PMCs had been withdrawn from Libya due to the ceasefire.
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and improvised explosive devices into the conflict, planting a number of
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Putin's Syrian Gambit: Sharper Elbows, Bigger Footprint, Stickier Wicket
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Russian Fighters Help Tighten Rebel Control of Libya's Largest Oil Field
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Russian Wagner mercenaries moving from Jufra to Sirte: Libyan Army
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Russian Oil Grab in Libya Fuels U.S.-Kremlin Tensions in Mideast
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Downing of Italian and US drones in Libya linked to Russian PMCs
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Libya's Haftar pulls back east as Tripoli offensive crumbles
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Erdogan Warns Russian Mercenaries in Libya Paid by Abu Dhabi
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Libya oil company: Russian mercenaries enter major oilfield
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Dergachev, Vladimir; Pudovkin, Yevgeniy (9 October 2018).
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Russian disinformation campaign in Africa linked to Wagner
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Nick Paton Walsh and Sarah El Sirgany (22 January 2021).
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Libya: 4 Russian mercenaries killed in helicopter crash
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Road to Libya's liberation passes through Al-Jufra base
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Russian Attack Jets Back Mercenaries Fighting in Libya
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Higgins, Andrew; Nechepurenko, Ivan (7 August 2018).
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Detention and execution of civilians by Russian PMCs
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Index

Wagner Group
paramilitary
private military company
mercenaries
Russian Ministry of Defence
GRU

Military situation in Libya
The Sun
Benghazi
Tobruk
Field Marshal
Khalifa Haftar
Libyan National Army
that country's civil war
Kalibr missiles
S-300
SAM
large advances
Sabha
launched an offensive
GNA
Tripoli
Alexander Kuznetsov
'Aziziya
howitzer
hollow point
ammunition
rules of war
land mines

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