Since arriving in Mali in 2021, Russian Wagner mercenaries have abducted and detained hundreds of civilians in former UN bases and military camps shared with the Malian army. Our investigation, as part of the Viktoriia project, reveals secret prisons where abuse and torture are carried out with total impunity.
The best propaganda (really the only good propaganda) is true.
You can see a lot of this in western propaganda, but a lot of it is just the propaganda accusing the other side of what the west is actually doing.
So yeah, it could be that the story is true. It could also be that it's just the west accusing others of what they are/were doing like it happens a lot. Or it could even be both cases, but this isn't evidnce of anything (although I would be very surprised if the projection hypothesis isn't true).
You can see a lot of this in western propaganda, but a lot of it is just the propaganda accusing the other side of what the west is actually doing.
So yeah, it could be that the story is true. It could also be that it's just the west accusing others of what they are/were doing like it happens a lot. Or it could even be both cases, but this isn't evidnce of anything (although I would be very surprised if the projection hypothesis isn't true).