Today’s latest news about the Ukrainian-Russian war
Dec. 20 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Central African Republic Police have reported the arrest of seven people allegedly involved in the explosion of a package bomb near the Russian Embassy in Bangui.
“Seven people were arrested, some of them were interrogated and released,” an employee of the Central African radio station Ndeke Luka has transferred to the Russian news agency TASS.
The Russian diplomatic legation in the Central African Republic confirmed on Friday an explosion near its headquarters and as a result of which Dimitri Siti, director of the Casa Rusa cultural center, was seriously injured.
The spokesman for the Russian Embassy in the African nation, Vladislav Ilyin, indicated that Siti was in a “serious” condition after having suffered a “concussion” and “loss of blood”. She already on Monday she was transferred, out of danger, to Russian territory.
The founder of the Wagner Group, Yevgeni Prigozhin, pointed directly to France as responsible for the attack. The company’s press service published a statement detailing that Siti had already received a shipment in November “sent from Togo and contained a photograph of her son, who lives in France.”
The African country has been plunged into a serious crisis as a result of the elimination of the 2020 presidential candidacy of former President François Bozizé, who returned to the country at the end of 2019 to once again be a candidate for the Presidency, a position he abandoned in 2014 before the uprising of the Séléka rebels, predominantly Muslims.
The elimination of Bozizé’s candidacy led to the creation of the armed alliance Patriots for Change Coalition (CPC) –currently led by the former president–, which triggered an armed conflict in which the RCA Army would also have support of Russian mercenaries from the Wagner Group.
