French President Emmanuel Macron, from Benin where he is on an official visit, today accused Russia of being “one of the last colonial, imperialist powers” referring to its invasion of Ukraine.
“Russia has launched an attack on Ukraine, a war for the conquest of territory, which we thought had disappeared from Europe. A war that we saw at the beginning of the 20th, even the 19th century,” the French president said at a joint press conference with his Beninese counterpart, Patrice Talon, referring to the sufferings suffered by the African continent from colonial imperialism.
“Russia is one of the last colonial, imperialist powers,” deciding “to invade a neighboring country in order to defend its interests there,” Macron said.
According to the French president, who is touring Africa at the same time as the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, “Russia has launched a new type, hybrid, global war.” “He decided that information, energy and food are military tools in the service of an imperialist war against Ukraine,” Macron said.
He also accused Moscow of a disinformation campaign, saying it was one of the countries using “propaganda media”.
He once again denounced Moscow’s “blackmail” in the food security sector, “because they blocked grain in Ukraine”, but also in the energy sector. In a similar style were the criticisms made by Emmanuel Macron during his visit to Cameroon.
At the same time, from Uganda, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that Moscow is not responsible for the “energy and food crises”, renouncing the responsibilities attributed to it by the international community.
Natural gas deliveries to Europe via the Nord Stream pipeline fell by 20% today, Russian energy giant Gazprom said, raising concerns in many European countries about shortages ahead of this winter.
After UN-sponsored negotiations, Moscow and Kyiv signed an agreement in Istanbul on Friday that paved the way for the resumption of grain exports from Ukraine’s Black Sea ports.
Source: AMPE
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