🇷🇺🇲🇱 Russian Africa Corps and Malian army in Kidal

Servicemen of Russia's Africa Corps and the Malian Armed Forces are now in Kidal, in northern Mali. The city was taken in a joint operation by the Africa Corps, the Malian army, and allied Tuareg fighters from the Imghad Tuareg Self-Defense Group and the Movement for the Salvation of Azawad.

The militants, meanwhile, put out an amusing statement of their own. According to them, they left Kidal voluntarily.

The reason? Their positions in and around the city were being regularly hit by Russian and Malian strikes, so out of deep concern for the safety of local residents, they decided to leave.

In other words: we were not driven out, we just could not stay because we kept getting bombed.

🔴 @DDGeopolitics