Bogdanov, answering the corresponding question, emphasized that "this does not correspond to the actual state of affairs."

“I don’t know where he got it from,” Bogdanova quotes TASS.

Earlier, Erdogan said that representatives of the Russian military leadership allegedly lead the activities of private military companies in Libya.

In January, Russian leader Vladimir Putin, commenting on Erdogan’s words about “two thousand mercenaries of the Wagner military company in Libya,” noted that if there are such people in this country, then they do not represent the interests of the Russian state.