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WSJ: Ukraine Is Now Fighting Russia in Sudan
Citat:▪️ Sudan’s military ruler, Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, asked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for help after being besieged in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, by rebel's Rapid Support Forces in Summer 2023.
▪️ Burhan had been quietly supplying Ukraine with weapons since shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to Ukrainian and Sudanese military officials.
▪️ Within a few weeks of the appeal, Ukrainian special forces arrived in Sudan and began fighting to push the rebel forces out of the capital, Khartoum, according to several Ukrainian soldiers involved in the operation.
▪️ The first wave of Ukrainian troops—nearly 100 soldiers, mostly from HUR’s Timur unit—landed on a charter jet in Sudan in mid-August 2023.
▪️ Theie first mission was to help get Burhan out of Khartoum, where the Rapid Support Forces had surrounded him. But not long after they arrived, Burhan drove in a convoy to the compound outside the capital where the Ukrainians were based. His guards had smuggled him out of Khartoum, according to Sudanese officials.
▪️ The Ukrainians helped their Sudanese allies with acquiring Turkish Bayraktar TB2 UCAVs, which arrived in February 2024, according to a Sudanese military official and an RSF adviser. (Officials from HUR declined to comment about helping Sudan procure Bayraktars).
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