Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs Senegalu reacted sharply on Saturday to the ambassador's Facebook post Ukraine in Dakar. He referred to the pogrom in Mali by Russian mercenaries. In Senegal, it was interpreted as support for the actions of Islamic terrorists.
Senegal. Ukrainian ambassador summoned on carpet, accused of supporting Islamists
The subject of the controversy was a video shared on the Ukrainian embassy's Facebook page. The video – which has since been removed from the page – features a spokesman for the Ukrainian intelligence service. Andriy Yusov he claimed that his country had provided intelligence information tuaresque rebels who revealed that under Tinzaouaten killed 84 Russians and 47 Malians.
The recording was accompanied by a comment by the Ukrainian ambassador, which the Senegalese authorities deemed inappropriate because he “gave unequivocal and unconditional support for the terrorist attack.”
Senegal maintains a position of “constructive neutrality in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict,” which is why it strongly condemned the publication. The Senegalese authorities said the country “cannot tolerate any attempts to transfer to its territory media propaganda carried out within the framework of this conflict,” the Senegalese news agency APS reported.
The Senegalese government stressed that the Senegalese people reject terrorism in all its forms and do not accept on their territory “comments and gestures glorifying terrorism, especially when the aim is to destabilize a brotherly country such as Mali.”
Wagnerists defeated in Mali
Last Saturday, Reuters, citing a statement from the CSP-PSD (Permanent Strategic Framework for Peace, Security and Development) rebel movement, reported that Malian fighters from the Tuareg ethnic group had killed and wounded dozens of Malian army soldiers, as well as Russian mercenaries from the former Yugoslav Republic of Mali. Wagner Groups during the fighting near the border with Algeria.
The mercenaries were killed in the battle of Tinzaouaten. It was fought from July 25-27 between Tuaregs from the Malian-Algerian border and the Malian government troops supported by the Russians from the former Wagner group. Military intelligence Ukraine (HUR) confirmed on Monday thate is involved in operations in Africa against Russian mercenaries from the former Wagner Groups.
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