AFRICAN STORIES: MALI RECEIVES MILITARY AIRCRAFT FROM THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION
Russia handed over another batch of aircraft purchased by the government of the Republic of Mali. This batch included one Su-25 jet fighter, four L-39 Czechoslovak jet trainers, an Mi-24P attack helicopter, an Mi-8 transport helicopter and a single Airbus C295 tactical transport aircraft.
Previous batches delivered by Russia had included another Airbus C295 tactical transport aircraft, two Mi-24P helicopters, four Mi-35 helicopters, four Mi-17 helicopters and Protivnik-GE/59N6-TE mobile radars. Despite this, the inventory of the Malian Airforce is still filled with legacy French Aircraft, some Brazilian aircraft and couple of American planes acquired before US government cut everything off because... "human rights".
As shown in the video below, Malian government officials and senior Malian military officials came to inspect the purchased Russian goodies to be used against al-Qaida terrorists armed with the same weapons that NATO dropped to Libyan Jihadists back in 2011. The Libyan Jihadists generously donated their NATO equipment to their counterparts in Mali (and Northern Nigeria).
This event will simply add to the humiliation of Emmanuel Macron who has not gotten over the expulsion of French troops from Mali in favour of Russian Mercenaries. EU apparachik Joseph Borrell had the audacity to tell Lavrov privately that Russia should back off because "Africa was European backyard".
Shortly after the private message was delivered to Lavrov, it became public knowledge. And Malian government officials weren't particularly pleased to hear that they were children to be protected from evil Russkies by wannabe African Big Daddy, Joe Borrell.
They demonstrated their displeasure by spurning the old military junk offered by EU on condition of breaking with Russia. Then they ordered more weapons from Russia to piss off our Big Daddy.
Watch the short video clip filmed by Sputnik News at Modibo Keita International Airport in the Malian capital city of Bamako:
