00:01Footage released by Russia's defense ministry purports to show a helicopter firing rockets during what the ministry claims to be
00:09fighting with Tuareg rebels in Mali.
00:12It comes after Moscow's Afrika Korps paramilitary unit was forced to withdraw from the town of Kedal, following attacks by
00:20Tuareg rebels and their jihadist allies.
00:24The two groups joined forces over the weekend against the ruling junta and its Russian paramilitary backers and carried out
00:31a string of attacks on junta positions, including near the capital.
00:36The country's defense minister, Saido Kamara, viewed as an architect behind the junta's pivot to Moscow, was killed in the
00:43fighting.
00:45On Wednesday, a spokesperson told reporters that Tuareg rebels want Russian forces to withdraw from, quote, all of Mali.
00:52He criticized Russia's intervention, claiming it, quote, supported people who committed serious crimes and massacres.
01:01This week, the Russian defense ministry confirmed its paramilitary troops had to leave Kedal.
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