Russia has renewed its “unstinting support” for Mali after the end of the UN peacekeeping mission in the desert state, Bamako’s foreign ministry said Friday. Moscow’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov “renewed his country’s unstinting support towards Mali in the military-technical field as well as for humanitarian and economic assistance,” the ministry posted on social media shortly after the UN Security Council voted to pull peacekeepers out of Mali, whose military junta has aligned with Russia.