 Mercenaries from Africa appear in Kursan region of Ukraine. Mercenaries from the African continent were spotted in Oleshkiy in the temporarily occupied territories of the Kursan region. Deputy Director of the Center for Middle East Studies of Ukraine Serhii Danilov wrote about this on Facebook. Mercenaries from the African continent were spotted at the market in Oleshkiy, Danilov wrote. According to Danilov, the comments remind him that African mercenaries were spotted in Chaplinka even earlier when they bought warm clothes and blankets at the market. Russia, in a new push to expand its influence in Africa, is recruiting from an armed force to replace the Wagner Group's mercenaries across the continent. The Africa Corps would bolster Russia's military presence with what it says would be a network of planned defense ministry-controlled bases in a bid to revive Moscow's Cold War era clout on the continent at a time of steeply declining Western influence. In this case, it is easy to attract mercenaries from Africa to the Russian army. As reported in the fall of 2022, the armed forces of Ukraine liberated the right bank part of the Kursan region, including the city of Kursan. Part of the region located on the left bank of the Nipro River is temporarily occupied by Russian troops.