Large number of Ukrainian mercenaries killed in Sudan: Army
The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) said they have killed a “large number” of Ukrainian mercenaries during clashes with the rebel forces in the south.
A multitude of foreign fighters backing the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), including “a large number” of Ukrainian mercenaries, were killed in North Darfur, SAF said in a statement on Thursday.
It said foreign mercenaries from Ukraine and Colombia, including some “who were engineers in the field of drones and electronic systems,” were killed in a “special operation” carried out by the Army’s 6th Infantry Division and allied units against the RSF forces stationed in the besieged city of El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur.
The statement added that the SAF troops inflicted “heavy losses in lives and equipment” on the RSF forces who had “tried to infiltrate the outskirts of the city’s neighborhoods.”
Ukraine is also supplying weapons and ammunition to the rebel RSF forces fighting against the Sudanese Army, a Sudanese Foreign Ministry official told media earlier this year.
The Sudanese diplomatic source told RT in June that by backing the armed rebel groups responsible for terrorist attacks in Libya, Somalia, and Niger, Ukraine is doing all the “dirty work” on behalf of the West.
The governments in Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger have reported Kiev's activities aimed at abetting “terrorism” in the Sahel region, by lodging a joint complaint against Ukraine with the United Nations Security Council.
Since 2023, Sudan has been entangled in a power struggle between SAF chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his former deputy, RSF commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, a.k.a. "Hemedti".
Before the conflict broke out between the two generals, a democratic transition was underway in Sudan, which had kicked off with the 2019 coup d'état that toppled former president Omar al-Bashir.
The longtime leader, Bashir, was replaced by a Transitional Military Council responsible for implementing civilian rule in the country.
In 2021, Burhan launched another coup, taking control of the Sudanese government.
The transition to democracy was then interrupted once more by the RSF after it launched attacks on SAF positions in April 2023.
Since then, the two sides have been vying for control of the country, plunging the nation into deep crisis while stalling the transition to democracy.
The African country now faces one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises.
According to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), thousands of people have been killed in Sudan, while half the population is at risk of acute food insecurity.
In addition, the UNHCR estimates that about a fourth of the country’s 50.5 million population, almost 12 million people, have been forcibly displaced from their homes.
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