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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>A new movie backed by Kremlin-linked catering magnate Yevgeny Prigozhin depicts a group of Russian \u201cmilitary instructors\u201d invited to Mozambique to fight Islamic State-linked insurgents in the country\u2019s north.
\n\u201cGranit,\u201d set to premiere next Tuesday on the government-friendly NTV channel, is produced by Aurum, a company in which Prigozhin holds a major stake, according to Russia\u2019s public registry.
\nThe movie \u2014 whose trailer says is dedicated to \u201cour Russian guys\u201d \u2014 depicts the real-life events involving Russian mercenaries who fought in Mozambique\u2019s northern Cabo Delgado region in 2019, its director Denis Neymand told The Moscow Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe movie was completely based on a Russian private military company in Mozambique. All of this happened in real life,\u201d said Neymand, who also confirmed that Aurum ordered the production of the movie.
\nThe Moscow Times, along with other outlets, earlier reported on how hundreds of Russian soldiers fighting for private military company Wagner were deployed in Mozambique, with at least seven of them killed by the Islamic insurgents.
\nUnits of the secretive Wagner group have been seen in several conflict zones, allegedly serving Russian private and state interests in Ukraine, Syria and Libya. The group has recently stepped up its efforts on the African continent, fighting in Mozambique and the Central African Republic, and were reportedly invited to Mali this fall.
\nNeymand said it \u201cwasn\u2019t a secret\u201d during filming that the mercenaries on which the movie is based belonged to the Wagner group.
\n\u201cBut we didn\u2019t name them in the movie because it doesn\u2019t really matter which private military company operates there. The movie is about showing how Russian guys help Africans against evil forces,\u201d he said, adding that the movie was filmed in the Central African Republic, where Russia has a military presence.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Mozambique. A new movie backed by Kremlin-linked catering magnate Yevgeny Prigozhin depicts a group of Russian \u201cmilitary instructors\u201d invited to Mozambique to fight Islamic State-linked insurgents in the country\u2019s north. \u201cGranit,\u201d set to premiere next Tuesday on the government-friendly NTV channel, is produced by Aurum, a company in which Prigozhin holds a major […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":11288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4,5,8,16],"tags":[233,281,283],"class_list":["post-11289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-culture-and-art","category-economy","category-homepage-english","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-mozambique","tag-mozambique"],"yoast_head":"\nPrigozhin Bankrolls New Movie About Russian \u2018Instructors\u2019 in Mozambique - 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