OREANDA-NEWS. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, created with the support of the UN Government of National Accord (PNS) Libya, Fathi Bashag, accused the fighters of the Russian PMC Wagner in using chemical weapons in the country, Anadolu agency reported.

“The Wagner-linked militias used nerve gas against our armed units in the Salahaddin area in southern Tripoli”, Bashaga said at a news conference in Tripoli. However, he didn't name the date of the event and did not talk about its consequences.

In December 2019, Turkish President Recep Erdogan said that 2 thousand mercenaries from PMC Wagner are in Libya. “Why and why today in Libya there are 5 thousand mercenaries from Sudan and 2 thousand mercenaries from PMC Wagner? What are they doing there? ”, Erdogan asked, speaking about the presence in the zone of the Libyan conflict of military from different countries.

Russian President’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov answered these statements with the words that Libya has become “a haven for mercenaries from a number of countries, from a huge number of countries”, there are “mercenaries and terrorist elements” on its territory.