The United States is alarmed by the prospect of a Russian naval base in Libya

Washington is concerned about Moscow's growing influence in Africa. Russian-Libyan relations especially raise questions. The American agency Bloomberg reports this, giving details of what is happening.

The publication notes that Russia and the eastern part of Libya intend to conclude a defense agreement. Libya is actually divided into two warring halves and does not have a single government. The western part of the country is allied with Turkey, and a fragile truce in the almost decade-long civil war is in force for the third year.



At the same time, the Russian Federation wants to expand its military presence in the region and under the control of the 79-year-old commander-in-chief of the Libyan National Army (LNA), Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who visited Moscow on September 26 at the invitation of the Russian Ministry of Defense. This could lead to the fact that the Russian Federation will have a naval base on the Libyan coast, which will allow it to firmly gain a foothold near Southern Europe and pose a new challenge to Washington and its European partners.


- emphasized in the material.

According to former US special envoy to Libya Jonathan Winer, this threat is taken “very seriously” by the US administration.


Winner said.

According to him, the White House understands that the prospect of creating a parking lot for Russian military vessels in one of the ports of Libya is in any case remote, since the sea harbors of the African country are in need of serious modernization. But Washington is alarmed in any case and will closely monitor developments, as it does not want to get another regional problem, the media summed up.

We remind you that during the Soviet era, ships of the Soviet navy could freely enter any port in Libya. Soviet military advisers and specialists were sent to Libya from 1970 to 1991 inclusive.