{"id":30051,"date":"2024-08-07T19:21:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:21:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=30051"},"modified":"2024-08-07T19:21:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:21:45","slug":"russia-accuses-ukraine-of-opening-african-front-as-niger-cuts-kyiv-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/07\/russia-accuses-ukraine-of-opening-african-front-as-niger-cuts-kyiv-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia accuses Ukraine of opening \u2018African front\u2019 as Niger cuts Kyiv ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Russia said Ukraine was opening a &#8220;second front&#8221; in Africa after Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Kiev, accusing it of support for &#8220;terrorist groups&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Unable to defeat Russia on the battlefield, the criminal regime of Volodymyr Zelenskyy has opened a second front in Africa,&#8221; Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the RIA Novosti news agency on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Zakharova accused Ukraine of &#8220;pandering to terrorist groups in countries on the continent friendly to Moscow&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Tuareg-led separatists have said they killed 84 fighters from Russia&#8217;s Wagner mercenary group and 47 Malian soldiers in an attack last month in northern Mali.<\/p>\n<p>Mali accused a senior Ukrainian official of having admitted Kiev&#8217;s role in the attack and broke off diplomatic relations on August 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sudan Events &#8211; Agencies\u00a0 Russia said Ukraine was opening a &#8220;second front&#8221; in Africa after Mali and Niger broke off diplomatic relations with Kiev, accusing it of support for &#8220;terrorist groups&#8221;. &#8220;Unable to defeat Russia on the battlefield, the criminal regime of Volodymyr Zelenskyy has opened a second front in Africa,&#8221; Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30044,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30052,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30051\/revisions\/30052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}