Reuters published on 11 September 2024 an article titled "Exclusive: Wagner Lost Veteran Fighters in Mali Ambush, in Setback to Russia's Africa Campaign" by Filipp Lebedev, Felix Light, and Jessica Donati.
Dozens of Russian Wagner mercenaries died in a battle with Tuareg rebels during a desert sandstorm in Mali near the Algerian border. Some were Russian war veterans who survived tours in Ukraine, Libya, and Syria.
