Dozens of Russian Wagner fighters killed in Mali ambush

People stand near an improvised memorial to Russian mercenary chief Yevgeny Prigozhin and others who died in a plane crash with him last year, near the Kremlin, in Moscow (Pavel Bednyakov/AP)

Dozens of Wagner mercenaries were killed by jihadis and rebels over the weekend in northern Mali in what one analyst described as the largest battleground blow to the shadowy Russian group in years.

At least two others were taken captive.