[Regnum] Ukraine has opened a second front in Africa, unable to defeat Russia on the battlefield. This was reported by the Russian Ambassador to Mali and Niger Igor Gromyko on December 28.
The Russian ambassador said that the head of the Kiev regime, Volodymyr Zelensky, also condones illegal armed groups that attack Moscow-friendly African countries.
"We understand the motives that prompted the Malians to end relations with Kiev. The fact of his cooperation with terrorists is not surprising at all. On the territory of our country, he continues to use prohibited methods - sabotage, political assassinations, regular shelling of civilian infrastructure facilities," Gromyko noted in a conversation with TASS.
He also recalled that in August, the transitional government of Mali broke off diplomatic relations with the Ukrainian side. The reason for this was the words of the press secretary of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense Andrey Yusov that the militants who attacked Malian servicemen on July 25-27 in the north of the country "were given the necessary information."
As reported by Regnum News Agency, in early August, the Ukrainian Ambassador to Senegal, Yuriy Pivovarov, published a video supporting Malian terrorists, after which he was summoned to the Senegalese Foreign Ministry, and the authorities of Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Ukraine.
On August 9, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, stated that the decision of African countries to sever diplomatic relations with Ukraine indicates a growing understanding by African countries of the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime.
On November 9, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that Russia would combat Ukrainian support for terrorists in Africa. According to Georgy Mikhno, Acting Director of the Department for New Challenges and Threats at the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Kiev regime actively and openly supports terrorist groups on the continent.