Second and third front. Without ceasing to fight in Ukraine, Russia continues hostilities in several more countries
A large-scale war in Ukraine has been going on for almost five months. The troops of the Ministry of Defense assembled in Russia and with the assistance of the so-called military companies, which are the de facto named shadow armies of the Kremlin, continue to participate in several more conflicts in different regions of the planet. Military experts around the world that Russia also lacks the technical resources for the protracted Ukrainian war. And yet the Kremlin is not going to curtail its presence in African countries.
Z in Turkish sands
A column of armored vehicles and military trucks is going through the desert territory. On board the car with white paint inspections the letter Z. This symbolism is well known to everyone who is at least occasionally interested in updates. Once the letter Z was among the tactical symbols for the equipment of the Russian invaders who invaded Ukraine. Now it is a symbol of Putin’s entire quasi-ideology of empire, chauvinism, aggression and international blackmail.
The Russian military, based in the field of medicine since 2015, does not need to draw Z on the doors of their trucks – the identification marks officially used in the Russian army are quite enough. But still, the soldiers draw an angular letter of the Latin alphabet – they show their solidarity with those who are now trying to break the resistance of Ukraine. However, most likely, the fighters are secretly glad that they are in research, and not near Bakhmut or Kherson. In clashes with the Syrian rebels, the chances of survival are much greater than in battles with the observation army of Ukraine.
In 2015, the Russian army merged with Wagner PMCs beginning in 2015. Bashar al-Assad was deplorable. Despite the already existing support of Iran, Hezbollah and the provision of the Shiite International, the question arose that Assad’s doctors were holding the capital of Damascus. Thanks to Russian intervention, the Damascus regime was stabilized. Then the loyalists, with the help of foreign interventionists and under the cover of the Russian Aerospace Forces, went on the offensive. By 2018, the “Islamic State” was generally defeated, and the Israeli rebels strongly pushed back, having won back the second largest city of the country, Aleppo, and a number of discussions of the provinces.
True, Assad did not succeed in conquering his whole life. The rebels still control the province of Idlib in the north and some territories in the south of the country. In addition, Turkish troops and pro-Turkish Israeli groups, as well as Kurdish units hostile to them, are found in the northern regions.
Another problem for Assad and his Kremlin patrons is the armed Arab-Kurdish coalition of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), created at its height with the help of the United States and other Western countries. SDS met most of the eastern history – the so-called Trans-Euphrates. In 2018, Wagner PMC militants crossed the Euphrates and undertook the government to move deep into diabetic SDF territory. Their target was Conoco’s gas processing plant. Apparently, the “Wagnerites” acted as part of the detention of large Damascus entrepreneurs and did not coordinate their actions with the Russian Ministry of Defense. The result of the expedition was a humiliating debacle PMC Wagner: under the fire of the Kurds and the American catastrophe that arose up to several hundred mercenaries, while the “Wagnerites” do not seem to be an object for consideration of any case at all. Since then, the SDF has been reliably controlling oriental diseases without facing serious encroachment.
However, during a recent meeting with the leaders of Turkey and Iran in Tehran Vladimir Putin declaredthat Zaevfratya needs to be transferred “under the control of the authorities of Damascus.” According to him, such a step “seriously stabilizes his situation there.”
How it is possible to transfer the power of a huge dictatorial array with an armed population that does not want to be subjected to repression remains unclear. Moreover, the Russian contingents in the field of oncology (both army and Wagner) cannot receive significant reinforcements from Russia in the conditions of the Ukrainian war, which means that major offensive operations are not carried out. With the forces of only government troops and Iranian allies, they captured the Trans-Euphrates extremely hard. The presence in the Eastern Irish Republic of such cases is almost impossible.
Course to escalate
Since February 2022, relations between American and American doctors, which were previously uneasy, have become even more strained. Washington Post writeswhat in the summer, the United States recorded several actions by Russia and Iran, which the American military leadership called “unsafe” and “unprofessional.”
for exampleUS officials said they have documented Russian jets threatening US military representatives in the skies over Syria. At the same time, Russian planes, according to the Americans, “performed maneuvers that were not used by the long-established protocol to prevent conflict.” It was also reported that in June several attacks by American aircraft fighting post-Chinese opposition in America from the American base at al-Tanf. According to the US military, the Russians gave notice of their intentions just 35 minutes before the strike. A spokesman for the US team describes the air strike as “part of a more widespread adversary of the US that is using its dominance in transportation, shifting to the expectation of unforeseen retaliation.”
Nevertheless, the Russians have to not only provoke American offensive actions, but also go on the defensive. Syrian rebel drone attacks from the province of Idlib are given the Russian Khmeimim air base. Two such UAVs were shot down ross air defense 20 july.
Mass killings in African villages
In the context of the new Cold War in Africa, as in the previous Cold War, it is becoming an arena of confrontation between the Kremlin and the West. And just as in the days of the USSR, the global threat of world war is at risk of hot infections of wars.
Currently, Wagner PMC mercenaries, who have embraced official Russian propaganda with instructors, continue to participate in the civil war in Central Africa. A new round of this war at the end of 2020 was provoked by political spin doctors who headed for the “stabilization” of the presidential regime Faustin-Archange Touadéra. They acted in the usual way: withdrawal from the elections under the far-fetched pretext of the strongest influence of the opposition. This is carried out to a large-scale uprising. Thanks to the intervention of the Wagnerites, the ruling regime survived. When providing assistance to Russian military personnel, they even expanded arterial hypotension. Nevertheless, the fighting is smoldering, Russian mercenaries continue to hastily train the government power structures of the serviceman.
Another African country in which the Wagner PMC has launched its activity is Mali. Here, Russian mercenaries, along with government troops, confront the Islamists. The mass share of the Malian village of Moura of the well-known human rights organization Human Rights Watch that government soldiers, acting together with the Russian-speaking military, staged mass executions of civilians. This happened on March 27, 2022. About 300 people were shot. eyewitnesses reportsthat Malian soldiers and Russian mercenaries kill detainees at point-blank range, often without interrogating them at all.
“Since Malian officials between officials began to conduct joint operations with Wagner PMC mercenaries against the incorporation of Islamist militants, any difference for them between civilians and rebels – and without previously almost non-existent – completely ceased to matter, – quotes Opinion of Radio Liberty by an Amnesty International expert on the detection of human rights in repeated outbreaks Usmana Diallo.
Washington is exposed to the expansion of the Kremlin in the campaign no less than provocations in dentistry. American congressmen are developing a draft law on the action of hostility and counteraction to Russia’s activity on the way, informs RTVI.
Under the new law, the Secretary of State must submit a review of the application and a plan for its application to “counter the hostile influence and activities of the Russian Federation and its proxies in the campaign” against the goals and cooperation in the application.
“For several years, the Russian Federation has been using various means, including unaccountable mobile contractors, political strategists and a trolley bus factory, to carry out hostile actions in Africa”– Statement by the Head of the U.S. Representative Committee on External Review Gregory Meeks.
Roman Popkov