Three Russians and one Ukrainian have been released from captivity in Libya, the head of a controversial Moscow-based political organisation said Saturday, drawing attention to the Kremlin’s role in conflict-torn Libya. 

36 members of the Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) have demanded that the United Nations, along with the United Nations Security Council should expel all foreign mercenaries and foreign bases from the Libyan territories.

The Libyan army has rejected a proposal made by United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to deploy international forces to support and monitor the Joint Military Commission’s permanent ceasefire agreement in the country.

The United Nations called for international monitors to support a fragile ceasefire in Libya, in the hope that foreign fighters will leave and the country can begin moving forward after almost a decade of war.

The Libyan Political Dialogue Forum (LPDF) participants have agreed to form a 15-member advisory committee next week in order to end the impasse of selecting mechanism to elect new executive authority.

Russia has pledged support to Libya‘s UN-recognised government and warned rogue general Khalifa Haftar against resuming hostilities.

The all-independent and boss of many an armed group in Libya – in Misurata and Tripoli to name a few – Fathi Bashagha: the Interior Minister of the Government of National Accord (GNA) is probably the man who is drifting France and Egypt’s support from Khalifa Haftar toward himself.

According to the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) that almost 12 thousand illegal migrants were stopped in the Mediterranean and returned to Libya.

Libya began 2020 with a full-blown war, as a result of the now failed military offensive by Khalifa Haftar, eastern commander of the self-styled Libyan National Army (LNA), which he launched on 4 April 2019.

The Libyan High Council of State said it would hold a session next Sunday to select the members of the constitutional committee to form the legal framework for the constitutional track in agreement with the House of Representatives in 60 days.