Security forces in Belarus said they arrested 32 Russian “mercenaries” near the capital city of Minsk on Wednesday for allegedly trying to disrupt the nation’s August 9 presidential elections, Voice of America (VOA) reported Thursday.
A lawyer for Erik Prince, the founder of private military contractor Blackwater, announced Tuesday that Prince will sue The Intercept over an article published in April that accused him of making attempts to offer military services to a Russian military contractor that has connections to the Russian government.
A private security company affiliated with the Russian military intelligence has been backing strongman Gen. Khalifa Haftar from Libya’s breakaway government with 300 mercenaries and has supplied his Libyan National Army (LNA) accused of war crimes with artillery, tanks, drones, and ammunition, the Telegraph recently found.
