Even as it pounds Ukraine, Russia is expanding its military footprint in Africa, delivering sophisticated weaponry to ...

Russia is reducing its military footprint in Syria and shifting some of its assets from the Middle Eastern country to Africa, flight data and satellite imagery analyzed by RFE/RL appear to show.

"Russia will first have to invest heavily in this base to organize flights to African countries," he explained. No further expansion in Africa "In recent weeks, we have seen how military equipment ...

China’s Strategy: Infrastructure, Debt, and Currency Dominance China’s expansion ... nations. Russia has established deep military relationships with several African nations, often in ...

On June 25, Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, commander of the Russian army nuclear, chemical and biological protection forces, accused the U.S. of expanding bioweapons research in Africa.

The Russian mercenaries - using success in staving off rebels in this impoverished nation as a model for expansion ... military companies to reduce American “boots on the ground” in Africa ...

Decades of conflict in CAR mirror the instability in other fragile African states where reliance on Russia’s military offerings has become increasingly prevalent, amid an aggressive push by ...

This was first done primarily through the Wagner Group, a private military company ... said the goal of the expansion was to contribute to the strengthening of Russia-Africa ties; to improve ...

It marks Putin’s third official expansion of Russia’s military since the war with Ukraine began in early 2022. In August 2022, Putin ordered the military to expand by the start of the next ...

Bangui, Central African Republic — Hours after Russian mercenary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin rebelled against his country’s top military leaders ... as a model for expansion — have long ...