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Four days after Wagner group mercenaries marched on Moscow, a Russian envoy flew into Benghazi to meet a worried warlord. The message from the Kremlin to Khalifa Haftar, the selfstyled general who runs much of eastern Libya, was reassuring: more than 2,000 Wagner fighters, technicians, political operatives and administrators in the country would be staying.
“There may be some changes at the top but the mechanism will stay the same: the people on the ground, the money men in Dubai, the contacts, and the resources committed to Libya,” the envoy told Haftar in his palatial residence. “Don’t worry, we aren’t going anywhere.”
The conversation, relayed to the Guardian by a Libyan former official,
