The French military says it has filmed Russian mercenaries burying bodies outside a military base, corpses it says are being used as part of a campaign of lies against departing French troops.
The images, taken by a drone after the French had left the Gossi base in northern Mali, show what appear to be Caucasian soldiers covering bodies with sand.
A Twitter account, which the French military says was probably a fake created by the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, has already posted images of pixelated corpses buried in sand and held the French responsible for their deaths.
Russia has not commented on the French accusations.