TRIPOLI: The arms embargo imposed on Libya since 2011 is “totally ineffective,” say United Nations experts in a stark report which underscores “extensive, blatant” violations by actors including its own member states.

The six experts charged with monitoring the embargo on the civil war-torn state pointed the finger at an array of international backers on both sides of its conflict, plus private mercenaries and nonstate actors — including the Russian Wagner group as well as former Blackwater head Erik Prince.