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Ukraine's Intervention in the Sahel is Hurting Russia. It's also Destabilising the Region.
Paweł Wójcik24 September 2026

A handful of Ukrainian trainers embedded with Mali's Tuareg rebels are fighting Russia's Africa Corps — but their allies include al-Qaeda's JNIM, and Kyiv's…
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