The episode "Beyond the News" (21/5/2020) followed the content and significance of regional and international positions and contacts regarding Libya, on the impact of the victories achieved by the Al-Wefaq government against the forces of retired Major General Khalifa Hifter.
Academic and political analyst Ali Abu Zeid said that countries in support of Hfter are still supported, and countries that were neutral and do not want their positions aligned to any party position is now more wary of Hfter forces, in the forefront of the United States of America.
He added that America had a confused view of the Libyan file, especially between the White House and the American State, in addition to the Congress, but now the US State Department is in charge of managing the Libyan file, and therefore there were important statements by the American Ambassador in Libya, and a clear rejection of the growing Russian role in Libya .
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on the other hand, said Vyacheslav Matuzov, a former Russian diplomat and expert on Middle East affairs; The Russian mercenaries in Libya do not exist except for some figures who work to maintain Russian equipment, stressing that there are no Russian mercenaries the size that is portrayed, and that Russia's relations with the pit are political, not military.
It is noteworthy that the Libyan Minister of Interior in the recognized national reconciliation government, Fathi Pashaga, said that Haftar's forces had received at least eight Russian war fighters sent to them from the Hmeimim base in Syria, to participate in the military campaign launched by Haftar to control Tripoli.