{"id":41345,"date":"2025-12-10T08:55:22","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T06:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=41345"},"modified":"2025-12-10T14:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T12:31:34","slug":"africa-as-a-testing-ground-for-russian-expansion-violence-and-destabilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/africa-as-a-testing-ground-for-russian-expansion-violence-and-destabilization\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa as a testing ground for Russian expansion, violence, and destabilization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use Africa as a testing ground for expansion, violence, and destabilization.<\/p>\n<p>In Mali, new cases of russian violence against civilians involving the so-called &#8220;African Corps&#8221; are being documented. In particular, cases of rape, torture, beheadings, and attacks on the civilian population have been recorded, write Western media.<\/p>\n<p>Due to russia&#8217;s actions, tens of thousands of civilians are fleeing to neighboring countries, forming new migration flows that could reach Europe. Despite this, russian media openly praise the activities of the &#8220;Corps&#8221;, and the russian foreign ministry confirms its presence in Mali, allegedly at the request of local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2023, 5,000 civilians have been killed in Mali (this figure is likely underestimated). According to various sources, approximately 46% were killed during attacks involving russian groups &#8211; the PMC &#8220;Wagner&#8221; and the &#8220;African Corps&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>russia, under the guise of friendship, educational and cultural events, uses Africa as a tool of geopolitical pressure: it strengthens the dependence of African countries on russia, undermines their sovereignty, provokes radicalization, and refines the methods of hybrid warfare.<\/p>\n<p>The Center also wrote, that gold from Africa is used to circumvent sanctions and finance the war against Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>russia continues to use Africa as a testing ground for expansion, violence, and destabilization. In Mali, new cases of russian violence against civilians involving the so-called &#8220;African Corps&#8221; are being documented. In particular, cases of rape, torture, beheadings, and attacks on the civilian population have been recorded, write Western media. Due to russia&#8217;s actions, tens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":41346,"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-41345","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\/41345","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=41345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}