Jihadists in Mali say they have captured a fighter working for Wagner, the Russian private security firm hired by the country’s military junta to train the military - though France and other countries say the fighters are acting as mercenaries.
The Group to Support Islam and Muslims (GSIM) told th Frenche AFP news agency that it had captured “a soldier of the Russian Wagner forces” in the first week of April in the Segou region in central Mali, without providing evidence to support the assertion.
