UNITED NATIONS -- The United States, Britain and France accused Russian mercenaries on Wednesday of operating alongside Central African Republic forces and committing human rights violations against civilians and obstructing UN peacekeeping -- charges immediately denied by Russia which denounced the Western nations for engaging in an "anti-Russia political hit job."
While Ndiaye didn't identify "the bilateral forces and other security forces," Russia has troops in CAR training its military at the invitation of the government. U.S. deputy ambassador Richard Mills noted secretary-general Guterres' report of a 28 per cent increase in incidents of human rights violations and abuses and violations of international humanitarian law over the past four months.
He condemned an "appalling incident in which these bilateral Russian actors threatened" MINUSCA's deputy special representative and a UN delegation on a humanitarian mission to Bang, , which is close to CAR's border with Chad and Cameroon, on May 28. "Some will try to deny the presence of the Wagner company," De Riviere said, calling on MINUSCA to provide details of who the men are fighting in CAR and who they are accountable to for their actions. The Wagner Group is a Kremlin-backed security company that was implicated in the conflict in Libya.
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