The mercenaries suffered all their losses in Mali In 2024, at least 59 fighters of the PMC Wagner were killed in Africa, Vorstka calculated, after analyzing messages in telegram channels associated with the PMC and chats of relatives. This is more than the average per year of the war in Syria, where 346 mercenaries were killed over nine years.

Slovakia is one of the few European countries that is significantly dependent on Russian energy resources Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico met with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on December 22. The day before, Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced that Fico would go to Moscow to discuss Russian gas supplies through Ukraine. He became the third leader of an EU member country to visit Russia since the start of the full-scale invasion.

Why does a company with Ukrainian roots help the Russian shadow fleet and what does Odessa MP Viktor Baransky have to do with it? "Layout" changed the names of the heroes In the summer of 2023, the tanker on which mechanic Alexander worked was transporting Russian oil to India through the Suez Canal: “We [the sailors] went on deck. For some reason everyone started running around, but we didn’t understand what was happening. We see that a ship is following us, and it begins to slow down.