DAKAR - As Ukraine’s top diplomat began a 10-day tour across Africa this week, he said he would attempt to “better explain Ukraine” to his African counterparts, and why Ukraine needs them against Russia’s aggression, writes the New York Times.
There seems to be much work ahead, based on his first stop, in the West African nation of Senegal. “I arrived here and I hear, ‘This isn’t our war, the West is fighting against Russia’; ‘Russia and Ukraine are one people’; and ‘Russia attacked you because you were going to become a NATO member,’” said Ukraine’s foreign minister, Dmytro Kuleba, describing conversations with Senegalese officials.
“Russian narrative has been very present here,” he said on Tuesday in a 30-minute conversation with a group of journalists in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.
“Now it’s time for Ukrainian truths.”
