
Mercenaries of Russian private military companies, previously participated in conflicts in the Donbass and Syria, went to fight in Sudan on the side of the government of the dictator Omar al-Bashira. This was reported by the BBC with reference to the head of the PMC "RSB-Group" Oleg Krinitsyna.
"I heard that people went there and even returned with a severe form of malaria," Krinitsyn said. According to him, the company's interests he headed, but the mercenaries of the RSB-groups are not fighting in Sudan and “are in their place of their deployment,” since the country “sluggish border conflict” in the country.
An unnamed Russian mercenary, who previously fought in Ukraine and Syria, also confirmed that he was soon going to go to Sudan. The interlocutor of the BBC claims that the militants of the Russian PMCs are already fighting there.
The ex -commander of the LPR battalion Vostok Alexander Khodakovsky said that "such rumors go (about sending Russians to Sudan. - Ed.), But so far without confirmation."
On November 27, the former "Minister of Defense of the DPR" Igor Girkin announced the possible sending of Russian militants to Sudan. “There are more and more evidence that the“ next stop ”in the overseas adventures of Nanogenia (Vladimir Putin. - Ed.) It is planned for Sudan. Type, in Syria“ there is soon victory, ”and“ to amuse international terrorism ”is necessary somewhere,” wrote Girkin on his VK page. “I was transmitted a couple of weeks ago that I was already preparing (after Syria) to go (after Syria) to go there (after Syria) to go there (after Syria) (in South Sudan) - are looking for specialists and translators who have remained since the USSR (with Sudan of the USSR, as far as I recall, he was friends "not very", but in neighboring Ethiopia Soviet "military men" fought, as they say, "in quantity"). "
The Civil War in Sudan has been continuing since 2013 due to the proclamation of independence by the southern part of the country. In 2011, according to the results of the referendum, South Sudan became a separate state and joined the UN. On the border between Sudan and South Sudan are about 12 thousand UN peacekeepers.
The dictator of Sudan Omar al-Bashir is on the wanted list of the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide during a conflict in the Darfur region in the west of the country.
On November 23, Omar met in Sochi with Russian President Vladimir Putin. At the negotiations, he asked the Russian leader to protect Sudan from "from the aggressive actions of the United States."
“This is the legitimate president of Sudan, and in this case he is the head of state legitimate, so he is the president’s substantive,” said Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the accusations against Omar with the Hague tribunal.