Foreign Policy published on 8 July 2022 an article titled "Libya Could Be Putin's Trump Card" by Robert Uniacke.
Russia's mercenary Wagner Group is entrenched in Libya as guns for hire for Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army. Some 2,000 Wagner Group mercenaries support Haftar's effort to control oil-rich eastern Libya. The country claims to have 39 percent of Africa's total oil reserves. Haftar has imposed a blockade on oil exports, which helps keep prices high to the delight of Moscow.
