DISINFO: Saying that Russian troops are in Libya amounts to baseless accusations
SUMMARY
Attempts to accuse Russia of using the conflict in Libya for its own interests and of having its troops there are baseless.
RESPONSE
A recurring disinformation narrative regarding Russian presence in Libya.
A private army linked to the Kremlin has been fighting on the front lines of the Libyan war for nearly three months.
The Russian firm Wagner Group is a shadowy mercenary outfit waging secret wars on the Kremlin’s behalf from Ukraine to Syria to the Central African Republic. The Wagner group members are mostly ex-service personnel, fought clandestinely in support of Russian forces in Syria and Ukraine, according to Reuters interviews with dozens of contractors, their friends and relatives.
This is also a recurrent pro-Kremlin narrative that Russian ground troops are not active in Libya or Syria, while there is a wide spectrum of sources disproving this claim.
To know more about the disinformation message regarding the Wagner group, check our report on a Russian attempt to hide all the pieces of evidence.