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May
30
2023
By GUY FAULCONBRIDGE
Lavrov warns West: Black Sea grain deal is in danger of collapse

Lavrov warns West: Black Sea grain deal is in danger of collapse

WORLD
RUSSIA warned the West that a deal allowing Ukrainian grain to be exported from the Black Sea would cease unless a United Nations agreement aimed at overcoming obstacles to Russian grain and fertiliser exports was fulfilled. The United Nations and Turkey brokered the Black Sea deal for an initial 120 days in July last year to help tackle a global food crisis that has been aggravated by Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, one of the world's leading grain exporters. Russia has repeatedly warned it will allow the deal to expire because of obstacles to its own exports of grain and fertiliser…
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May
13
2023
By KOPANO GUMBI and WENDELL ROELF
South Africa rejects U.S. accusations of arms shipment to Russia

South Africa rejects U.S. accusations of arms shipment to Russia

NEWS
SOUTH African officials hit back at U.S. accusations that a sanctioned Russian ship had collected weapons from a naval base near Cape Town late last year, a move investors fear could lead Washington to impose sanctions. The U.S. ambassador to South Africa said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship uploaded weapons from the Simon's Town base in December, suggesting the incident was not in line with Pretoria's stance of neutrality in the Ukraine conflict. Western diplomats were alarmed at South Africa carrying out naval exercises with Russia and China this year and at the timing of a visit by Russian Foreign…
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Jan
25
2023
By The African Mirror
SA defends military exercise with Russia

SA defends military exercise with Russia

NEWS
CARIEN DU PLESSIS SOUTH Africa's foreign minister deflected criticism of joint military drills planned with Russia and China, saying that hosting such exercises with "friends" was the "natural course of relations". Naledi Pandor made her comments during a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who was visiting South Africa 11 months after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. A South African official, who declined to be named because they were not authorised to speak, said Lavrov would afterwards visit Eswatini, Botswana and Angola. South Africa is one of Russia's most important allies on a continent divided over the invasion and Western attempts to…
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Jul
21
2022
By The African Mirror
Russia declares expanded war goals beyond Ukraine’s Donbas

Russia declares expanded war goals beyond Ukraine’s Donbas

WORLD
RUSSIAN Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow's military "tasks" in Ukraine now went beyond the eastern Donbas region, in the clearest acknowledgement yet that it has expanded its war goals. In an interview with state media nearly five months after Russia's invasion, the foreign minister also said peace talks made no sense at the moment because Western governments were leaning on Ukraine to fight rather than negotiate. Ukraine's foreign minister retorted that Russia wanted "blood, not talks". When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, President Vladimir Putin explicitly denied any intention of occupying his neighbour. He said then that…
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