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title: "Ukraine's Intervention in the Sahel is Hurting Russia. It's also Destabilising the Region."
description: "A handful of Ukrainian trainers embedded with Mali's Tuareg rebels are fighting Russia's Africa Corps — but their allies include al-Qaeda's JNIM, and Kyiv's drone tactics are already reaching the jihadists."
url: https://fronts.co/article/ukraines-intervention-in-the-sahel-is-hurting-russia-its-also-destabilising-the.md
canonical: https://fronts.co/article/ukraines-intervention-in-the-sahel-is-hurting-russia-its-also-destabilising-the/
datePublished: 2026-09-24T14:00:28.000Z
dateModified: 2026-09-24T14:00:36.000Z
author:
  - name: Paweł Wójcik
    url: https://fronts.co/authors/pawe-w-jcik/
publisher: Fronts
image: "https://media.fronts.co/cdn-cgi/image/width=1200,height=630,fit=cover,gravity=auto,quality=80,format=auto/images/articles/ukraines-intervention-in-the-sahel-is-hurting-russia-its-also-destabilising-the-52297546.jpg"
type: NewsArticle
language: en
tokens: 96
---

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A handful of Ukrainian trainers embedded with Mali's Tuareg rebels are fighting Russia's Africa Corps — but their allies include al-Qaeda's JNIM, and Kyiv's drone tactics are already reaching the jihadists.

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Full analysis is behind the paywall. Read the gated piece at https://fronts.co/article/ukraines-intervention-in-the-sahel-is-hurting-russia-its-also-destabilising-the/.
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