Libya’s UN-backed government has been collecting evidence of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner group fighting alongside rogue General Khalifa Haftar.

Ostensibly undertaken to rid the capital of militias, the campaign by Haftar’s self-styled Libyan National Army was in fact a baldfaced grab for power and wealth.

UAE’s Al-Aan news TV aired Tuesday a video showing a Russian mercenary fighter talking about his time in Libya with other Russian mercenaries fighting for Khalifa Haftar’s forces.

In a statement on the situation in Libya, the UN Security Council yesterday called on all parties to urgently de-escalate and to commit to a ceasefire. It reiterated its full support for UNSMIL head Ghassan Salame’s peace efforts and expressed concern on reported breaches of the arms embargo as well …

Libyan Army Spokesman, Mohammed Gunouno has disclosed that their forces had destroyed an operation room run by “a gang of mercenaries” -according to him- in Qasr bin Ghashir town on Saturday.

Russia has deployed military forces to Libya that are destabilizing the country, a top State Department official warned Tuesday, according to the CNN.

Al-Monitor website has revealed that the US Congress is mulling sanctions against Moscow for deploying “Wagner” Russian forces in Libya to support Haftar.

The Libyan Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha has unveiled links between two Russians arrested for spying in Tripoli earlier this year and Wagner Group whose mercenaries are fighting for Khalifa Haftar’s forces in southern Tripoli.

Congress is preparing bipartisan sanctions on Russian mercenaries and other suspected human rights violators in Libya, Al-Monitor has learned, as the Donald Trump administration looks to use the recent entry of Moscow-linked paramilitaries into the conflict to reinvigorate a long-dormant American strategy in the war-torn country.

The number of mercenaries from Russian Wagner Group headed by Yevgeny Prigozhin, also known as “Putin’s chef” for his Kremlin catering contracts, who arrived at a forward base in Libya in the first week of September to bolster Khalifa Haftar’s forces, has risen to 1400, Bloomberg reported on Friday.