An al-Qaeda-affiliated group ambushed and killed Wagner Group mercenaries in central Mali, according to a statement from the group cited by the.

As Ukrinform reported, at the end of July, a coalition of anti-government groups in northern Mali killed more than 80 mercenaries from the Russian PMC Wagner and 47 Malian soldiers during three days of fighting. This is the largest loss of the Wagner PMC in all the years of its presence in Africa.

Russian mercenaries suffered another significant loss in Mali. On Thursday, at least seven of them were killed in a clash with the Al-Qaeda-linked Group for the Support of Islam and Muslims (JNIM). This information was provided on Friday by the American intelligence institution,