Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov will make stops across Africa next month as the Kremlin tries to show the West that it still has friends abroad.
. Despite previously calling on the Kremlin to withdraw from Ukraine unilaterally, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor said the country was no longer taking that position as of Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen during his meeting with workers at the Obukhov State Plant on January 18 in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Inset, South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pando is seen in Pretoria, South Africa, on Monday. Desperate to prove that Russia still has friends amid the ongoing war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is turning to African nations in hopes of finding an unexpected new ally.
"Russia is eager to show the U.S., Europe and all the countries that are supporting Ukraine that Russia has a vigorous presence on the world stage, that it's welcomed in these kinds of places and that it's sort of life as usual," Kimmage said."Russia is looking for pillars of support and finding none of them in Europe and the United States." So, he said the Kremlin is now looking to build those pillars wherever they can find them.
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