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Mali’s Attorney General, Amadou Boukar, announced that “an investigation has been opened after a deadly terrorist attack in Tinzaouten in the north, in which Ukrainian officials have claimed to be involved,” according to his statement.
Boukar said in a statement on Thursday that the investigation “will shed light on these alleged terrorist acts, complicity in acts of terrorism and financing of terrorism.”
He added that this measure comes in the wake of statements by the spokesman for the Ukrainian military intelligence agency, Andriy Yusov, who “support his country’s involvement in an attack carried out by armed terrorist groups, which led to the killing of members of the Malian defense and security forces in Tinzaouten ,” and also after “statements made by the Ukrainian ambassador to Senegal, Yuriy Pivovarov, in which he expressed his support for international terrorism, especially in Mali.”
The Attorney General of Mali confirmed that “the investigation will allow the perpetrators of the attack to be identified and integrated,” stressing that “justice will then be served.”
The prosecutor’s decision came after the military councils in Mali and Niger severed ties with Ukraine over its support for terrorism over the Tinzaouten attack, which killed Malian soldiers along with fighters from the Russian “Wagner” private force, which provides support to the Malian army.
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