Libya: Cyrenaica increasingly in Russia's orbit, while Italy appears incapable of political initiative

On Monday, February 17, General Khalifa Haftar, commander of the Libyan National Army (LNA), visited Minsk, where he agreed with the Belarusian authorities to strengthen cooperation, particularly in the military sector. The strongman of Cyrenaica, in fact, committed to granting a "military citadel" in the city of Tobruk, to a mixed Russian and Belarusian contingent. Moscow has long been able to count on the naval base of Al Jufra, where among ot…