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Exclusive: Ukraine's special services 'likely' behind strikes on Wagner-backed forces in Sudan, a Ukrainian military source says | CNN

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Drone strikes and ground operation likely to have been carried out by Ukrainian forces, CNN finds.

Drone footage shows drone attacks on paramilitary group Rapid Support Forces .

The group is believed to be receiving assistance from Russian mercenary group Wagner .

Wagner has played a public and public role in Moscow ’s foreign military campaigns.

Six drone strikes targeted pickup trucks driving on Shambat bridge.

Eight other attacks hit parked vehicles, buildings and armed men in Omdurman and the western suburb of Ombada .

CNN has previously reported that Wagner has been supplying the RSF with surface-to-air missiles buttressing paramilitary fighters.

Two days after Prigozhin’s death, Russian Deputy Defense Minister Yunus-Bek Yevkurov embarked on a five -country tour of old Wagner stomping grounds: Libya , Syria , Mali , Burkina Faso and the CAR .

“For us the Kremlin and Wagner have become one and the same” says Sudanese source.

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