Russians accused of staging French killings in Mali

The French military says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies outside a military base, corpses it says are being used as part of a campaign of lies against departing French troops.

The images, taken by a drone after the French had left the Gossi base in northern Mali, show what appear to be Caucasian soldiers covering bodies with sand.

A Twitter account, which the French military says was probably a fake created by the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, has already posted images of pixelated corpses buried in sand and held the French responsible for their deaths.

Russia has not commented on the French accusations.

This article originally appeared in BBC News

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