{"id":44584,"date":"2026-03-08T14:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/?p=44584"},"modified":"2026-03-06T15:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T13:45:18","slug":"russia-is-strengthening-its-political-influence-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/international-threats-en\/global-south\/russia-is-strengthening-its-political-influence-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia is strengthening its political influence in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After the attack on Azerbaijan by Iranian drones, pro-russian channels immediately started promoting another conspiracy theory, alleging that Ukraine was behind the strike, having used &#8220;trophy&#8221; Iranian Arash-2 drones to &#8220;drag Azerbaijan into a war against Iran&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>russian propaganda uses as evidence the supposedly found drone debris in Kazakhstan after Ukraine&#8217;s attacks on russia, where, according to them, &#8220;trophy drones were also used&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>russian propaganda&#8217;s claims about Ukraine using Kazakhstan&#8217;s airspace for attacks on russia or launching &#8220;repaired&#8221; Iranian UAVs are completely unfounded. This is a classic tactic of &#8220;flooding&#8221; the information space with conflicting versions to sow doubt and conceal the real sources of threats in the region.<\/p>\n<p>A similar disinformation campaign took place after the attacks by russian UAVs on Polish territory, when propagandists also tried to shift the blame to Ukraine. Then too, Ukraine was accused of &#8220;provocations&#8221; using russian drones. The goal remains the same &#8211; to absolve russia of responsibility and discredit Ukraine in the eyes of its partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the attack on Azerbaijan by Iranian drones, pro-russian channels immediately started promoting another conspiracy theory, alleging that Ukraine was behind the strike, having used &#8220;trophy&#8221; Iranian Arash-2 drones to &#8220;drag Azerbaijan into a war against Iran&#8221;. russian propaganda uses as evidence the supposedly found drone debris in Kazakhstan after Ukraine&#8217;s attacks on russia, where,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44585,"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-44584","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\/44584","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=44584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cpd.gov.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}