# Russia’s Africa Corps in Mali and Relations with Algeria

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2119021854190874770
- Source account: [@Almohade239206](https://x.com/Almohade239206)
- Source language: Russian
- Target language: English
- Duration: 3:08
- Published: 2026-11-07
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## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria) You know, the Africa Corps is a unit of the Russian Federation's Ministry of Defense.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=7) Our military do not carry out any actions against civilians, or civilian infrastructure.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=15) The whole point is that today there are attempts to accuse Russia, without any evidence, of anything, of the deadliest sins.

[0:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=27) And as for— you said that the Africa Corps is in some countries that border Algeria, and apparently some questions and concerns are arising there.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=39) If you mean Mali, then in Mali our Africa Corps is operating at the request, at the invitation of the country's legitimate authorities.

[0:53](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=53) We know about the tensions that exist between our friends in Algeria and our friends in Mali.

[1:01](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=61) These tensions are connected, you know, let's call things by their name, to the colonial past, When the colonizers just divided Africa with a ruler, in straight lines, splitting ethnic groups' homelands, as happened in the southern part of the African continent,

[1:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=89) Rwanda, Burundi, the Tutsis, the Hutus, and in the case of Algeria and Mali, the same happened to the Tuaregs.

[1:40](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=100) And this legacy keeps breaking through in the form of various conflicts.

[1:48](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=108) I wouldn't rule out that those who drew the borders with a ruler sometimes try to provoke an escalation that way.

[1:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=117) Because just look at a map of Africa, there are so many very artificial borders there.

[2:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=126) And at one time, the African Union after decolonization, considered the question of making this border demarcation more logical, so as not to split ethnic and religious groups in half.

[2:27](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=147) And so the decision was made not to do it, because it would have opened a Pandora’s box.

[2:36](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=156) And these conflicts that sometimes flare up now, would have spread across all of Africa.

[2:41](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=161) It was a very wise decision by the African Union.

[2:44](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=164) We are in contact with our Algerian friends about the issue you just mentioned, the issue of relations with Mali and in contact with our friends in Mali.

[2:59](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=179) Both sides are interested in our helping in some way to ease the differences.

[3:06](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/wYYEnk8DGCZd/en/russia-s-africa-corps-in-mali-and-relations-with-algeria?t=186) We are ready to do that.