Turkey looking at going into Libya against Russian mercenaries

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All 20 are individually identified by name in the linked article. About 50/50 British and South African.

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/n...r_gunship_plan

Investigators uncover roles of mercenaries in UAE-backed Libya helicopter gunship plan

.....The 20 private military contractors (PMCs) who were evacuated from war-torn Libya aboard two Malta-leased RHIBs and to Valletta, were aviation experts getting ready to operate assault helicopters, Malta Today has learnt.

A full list of names in this newspaper’s possession clearly shows the men who arrived at the Valletta seaport on the Manta-1 rigid inflatable boat on 3 July were not oil and gas personnel, but PMCs with evident military experience........

Now police investigators have learned that the men were specialist pilots engaged to operate six utility and support helicopters, to be armed for “assault and interdiction operations”; as well as seacraft from Malta with maritime interdiction capability to target the sea supply route for weapons from Turkey to the Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli.........