Russia Denies It Has Any Troops Stationed in Mozambique
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- Russia is providing military equipment to fight insurgency
Residential and commercial buildings in Maputo, Mozambique.
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Russia’s government denied it has any troops in Mozambique after reports that a Russian soldier was killed in the gas-rich southeast African country.
“There are no Russian soldiers in Mozambique,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Tuesday in Moscow.