(Fox News) Russia is moving troops and missiles into Libya in a bid to enforce a new stranglehold on the West, British prime minister Theresa May has been warned. Intelligence chiefs have told Mrs May that Vladimir Putin wants to make the wartorn North African country “his new Syria”. And seizing control of the biggest illegal immigration route to Europe is seen as Moscow’s primary goal. The Sun can reveal that

“dozens” of officers from the GRU military spy service as well as its Spetznaz special forces wing are already on the ground in eastern Libya, initially carrying out training and liaison roles. Two Russian military bases are already now up and running in the coastal towns of Tobruk and Benghazi, using the cover of the controversial Russian private military company the Wagner Group which already has outposts there. READ MORE


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