{"id":53341,"date":"2025-08-25T03:14:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=53341"},"modified":"2025-08-25T03:14:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T00:14:06","slug":"russia-reveals-ukrainian-mercenaries-in-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/25\/russia-reveals-ukrainian-mercenaries-in-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Reveals Ukrainian Mercenaries in Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russia announced that it has identified Ukrainian drone instructors operating across the Sahel region and Central Africa. The Russian state news agency quoted Alexander Ivanov as saying: \u201cIn these countries, Ukrainian trainers work closely with local terrorist groups, supplying them with drones.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moscow confirmed that it has identified Ukrainian drone instructors active in Mali, Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Central African Republic, and Chad. According to Ivanov, director of the International Security Officers\u2019 Union, these trainers coordinate attacks against government forces.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the instructors provide drones\u2014including Mavic 3 drones equipped with Ukrainian-made systems\u2014and training to local militias, while also helping plan assaults on government troops and allied forces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia announced that it has identified Ukrainian drone instructors operating across the Sahel region and Central Africa. The Russian state news agency quoted Alexander Ivanov as saying: \u201cIn these countries, Ukrainian trainers work closely with local terrorist groups, supplying them with drones.\u201d Moscow confirmed that it has identified Ukrainian drone instructors active in Mali, Sudan, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":53340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53341"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53342,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53341\/revisions\/53342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}