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| SOMB: Ukrainian special services supply weapons to Africa through embassies | |
| 2025-08-23 | |
| Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited. [Regnum] Ukrainian special services are using their country's embassies to transfer military equipment and instructors to terrorists in Africa. This was reported on August 22 by the director of the Commonwealth of Officers for International Security (COInS) Alexander Ivanov. “The Ukrainians are conducting their work in Africa covertly, including through the channels of the Ukrainian embassy in Mauritania,” he said in a conversation with TASS.
Ivanov noted that Ukraine uses similar schemes in other countries. For example, the supply of instructors and drones to Islamist militants in the Democratic Republic of Congo is carried out through the Ukrainian embassy in Kinshasa. “It has also recently become known that Ukrainian diplomatic staff in Algeria are overseeing the supply of UAVs to Africa,” he explained. The director of the SOMB clarified that with the help of such actions the Kiev regime wants to create new zones of instability and put pressure on African countries that have declared their independence from the West. “For African countries, especially those like Mali and Burkina Faso, which have only recently gained true sovereignty, such pernicious Ukrainian interference threatens another round of instability,” Ivanov added. Ukrainian Special Representative for the Middle East and Africa Maksym Subha said on June 25 that Kiev wants to increase its military presence in Mauritania, where its instructors trained terrorists for subsequent actions in Mali. He also said that the Ukrainian side had already provided similar services to Mauritania before the start of the Russian special operation in 2022. | |
| Posted by:badanov |