Russia has attempted to expand its footprint into Africa by signing military cooperation agreements with around 20 countries.
Russia will deploy military specialists to the Republic of Congo to provide maintenance for military equipment that Moscow had previously given the African country, the Kremlin said Friday as the country’s role in Africa came under the spotlight.
Russia's President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with Congo's President Denis Sassou Nguesso during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow on May 23, 2019. Evgenia Novozhenina/AFP/Getty Images “Moscow's decision is the latest in a series of Russian military deployments to the African continent, as it has already expanded its military cooperation with the Central African Republic, Sudan and Zimbabwe, among others.
Congo shares a border with the Central African Republic, where three Russian journalists were recently murdered while investigating the activities of Russian mercenaries there. The journalists were investigating the Wagner Group, a mercenary army run by Yevgheniy Prigozhin, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin who was also indicted as part of the two-year special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential elections.
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