On 19 February, Foreign Policy published an article by Nosmot Gbadamosi, titled ‘After Assad’s Fall, Russia Looks to Libya and Sudan’. The article looks at intelligence reports and satellite images following the fall of Syria’s Assad regime and the subsequent ejection of Russian troops from the country, which has led Russian President Vladimir Putin to reallocate military assets to Libya and Sudan. A potential naval facility in Libya’s port of Tobruk would allow Moscow to retain its capability in West Africa and still provide a strategic hub against NATO on the Mediterranean Sea, Gbadamosi argues, adding that strategic Russian bases in eastern Libya would give commander Khalifa Haftar more power in UN-facilitated negotiations about the future of Libya—potentially prolonging an already fractured timeline for national elections.
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