“No, Vladimir Putin, the commander in chief of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, did not send troops to Libya, he did not give any orders to that effect,” said a Kremlin spokesman.
So he answered the question of whether the Russian president sent troops to Libya.
In response to a question on how to explain the presence of the dead, he noted that he did not know and could not explain.
“There are no Russian troops in Libya,” he stressed.
Earlier, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that representatives of the military leadership of Russia allegedly control the activities of private military companies in Libya.
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that these words of Erdogan are not true.