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Russian Snipers, Missiles and Warplanes Try to Tilt Libyan WarMoscow is plunging deeper into a war of armed drones in a strategic hot spot rich with oil, teeming with migrants and riddled with militants.By David D. Kirkpatrick Nov. 5, 2019 Updated 2:14 p.m. ETTRIPOLI, Libya — The casualties at the Aziziya field hospital south of Tripoli used to arrive with gaping wounds and shattered limbs, victims of the haphazard artillery fire that has defined battles among Libyan militias. But now medics say they are seeing something new: narrow holes in a head or a torso left by bullets that kill instantly and never exit the body.It is the work, Libyan fighters say, of Russian mercenaries, including skilled snipers. The lack of an exit wound is a signature of the ammunition used by the same Russian mercenaries elsewhere.Read more at: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/05/world/middleeast/russia-libya-mercenaries.html
200 Russian mercenaries come to Libya, join local militia leaderThe group includes snipers from Wagner PMC who previously fought in Syria and Donbas22:40, 5 November 2019...The said snipers previously fought in Syria and Donbas. According to the U.S. outlet, they may be identified by the type of ammunition they use. These are the bullets they used in Donbas. Libyan military doctors reported that the nature of combat injuries has changed lately. These are caused by the narrow gunshot wounds in the head or the body; they are caused by expansion rounds that leave no holes, remaining in the flesh. A worker of EU law enforcement agency told the press that the absence of bullet holes points out to the expansive rounds used by Russian marksmen in Donbas.https://112.international/politics/200-russian-mercenaries-come-to-libya-join-local-militia-leader-45257.html
