The source, who asked not to be named, explained that UAVs of “unknown origin” hit “al Harouba Air Base, 150 kilometers southeast of Benghazi (east), where elements of the Wagner Group are located.”
Radio-controlled drones hit an air base in eastern Libya on Thursday night, where mercenaries from the Russian private military company Wagner are stationed, but no casualties were reported, a military source told AFP.
The source, who asked not to be named, explained that UAVs of “unknown origin” hit “al Harouba Air Base, 150 kilometers southeast of Benghazi (east), where elements of the Wagner Group are located.”
The strikes “did not cause casualties,” he added.
Libya remains mired in a major political crisis since the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011, the main features of which are the East-West divide and the interventions of various foreign powers.
From April 2019 to June 2020, Khalifa Haftar, the strongman of eastern Libya, used fighters from Chad, Sudan, Nigeria and Syria, but above all Wagner mercenaries, in his failed campaign with the aim of capturing the capital Tripoli.
Since then, hundreds of Wagner members remain active in the country, in the east, where oil export terminals are located, as well as in the south; some of the force has left, partly in Mali and partly in Ukraine, where the mercenaries are fighting alongside the Russian regular army.
Source :Skai
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