The war in Ukraine, the confrontation with NATO, Russian operations in Niger. Vladimir Putin, speaking at the XI Moscow Conference on International Security, is moving on several fronts. “NATO member countries continue to build and modernize their offensive capabilities, making attempts to transfer military confrontation to outer space and information space. They use military and non-military means of pressure,” said the Russian president. “Focuses of tension are also present in other regions of the world,” added Putin, “and although the security challenges in each of them have their own characteristics, they are all generated by geopolitical adventures, selfish and neocolonial actions of the West”.
Africa, we said. Putin called for a peaceful solution to the crisis in Niger in a phone call with the leader of the military junta in Mali, Assimi Goita. “The importance of resolving the Niger settlement exclusively through peaceful political and diplomatic means was stressed,” a Kremlin statement said referring to the phone call. Together with Burkina Faso, Mali has given its support to the military junta that took power in Niger on 26 July, opposing any possibility of ECOWAS military intervention to restore constitutional order in the country. “I had a telephone conversation with President Putin. We discussed the situation in Niger. He underlined the importance of a peaceful resolution of the situation for greater stability in the Sahel”, writes the leader and transitional president of Mali in a tweet. Colonel Assimi Goita.
Source: IL Tempo
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