{"id":32793,"date":"2025-05-29T14:57:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T11:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=32793"},"modified":"2025-05-30T09:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T06:35:26","slug":"russia-has-intensified-rhetoric-about-the-ukrainian-threat-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-has-intensified-rhetoric-about-the-ukrainian-threat-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia has intensified rhetoric about the \u201cUkrainian threat\u201d to Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use the XIII International Meeting of High Representatives in charge of security issues to spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda among Global South countries. This time, kremlin is trying to portray Ukraine as a &#8220;threat to stability and security&#8221; \u2014 specifically for Africa.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xcwd3tp xat24cr x39eecv x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xn5pp95 x18d9i69 x2fxd7x x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> director of the Africa partnership department at russia\u2019s MFA, tatyana dovgalenko, repeated russian propaganda fakes, claiming that Kyiv is allegedly training militants in the Sahel and that Western weapons supplied to Ukraine are supposedly ending up in the hands of terrorists in Africa. At the same time, she presented russia as a \u201cguarantor of stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"x1xsqp64 xiy17q3 x1o6pynw x19co3pv xdj266r xcwd3tp xat24cr x39eecv x2b8uid\" data-testid=\"emoji\"><span class=\"xexx8yu xn5pp95 x18d9i69 x2fxd7x x3jgonx x1bhl96m\">\u25ab\ufe0f<\/span><\/span> The aim of such statements is to discredit Ukraine and reshape global perceptions of the war that Russia is waging against our country.<\/p>\n<p>In reality, it is russia that plays a key role in destabilizing Africa \u2014 wagner group mercenaries have been involved in military coups and armed conflicts across the continent, allowing kremlin to gain access to natural resources. Moscow seeks to increase its political influence in the region to expand its network of allies and strengthen the anti-Western bloc in global politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use the XIII International Meeting of High Representatives in charge of security issues to spread anti-Ukrainian propaganda among Global South countries. This time, kremlin is trying to portray Ukraine as a &#8220;threat to stability and security&#8221; \u2014 specifically for Africa. \u25ab\ufe0f director of the Africa partnership department at russia\u2019s MFA, tatyana dovgalenko,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32794,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","wds_primary_category":933,"footnotes":""},"categories":[933],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-south"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}