OREANDA-NEWS. Moscow has no plans to deploy a military base in Libya, and no relevant questions were sent to the Libyan authorities. This was reported by Russian Ambassador to Egypt, Georgy Borisenko.

“Russia has no such plans. No requests from the Russian side to the Libyan authorities about the creation of any military base, sea basing point have been made,” the diplomat said on the air of the Egyptian television channel TEN.

In Libya, after the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in 2011, there is a confrontation between the Libyan National Army led by Khalifa Haftar and the Government of National Accord headed by Fayez al-Sarraj, formed with the support of the United Nations and the European Union. In 2019, Haftar’s forces launched an assault on Tripoli. At a summit in Moscow in January of 2020, the foreign ministers of Russia and Turkey held talks with Haftar and al-Sarraj. The parties agreed on a ceasefire, but hostilities in Libya continued.