Ok niet volledig relevant met betrekking tot oekraine maar Rusland weet wel wapens van afrikaanse landen af te snoepen voor in hun oorlog te gebruiken.
Russia has quietly been distributing its own flags throughout West Africa, where they are now considered “so cool.” Russia is seen by many young Africans as an anticolonial power, there to help them cast off their colonial past
You can't make this shit up
El Hadj Bagué, the owner of a grocery shop at a market in central Niamey, said he “used to hate President Vladimir Putin because of his invasion of Ukraine.” But the president’s friendly attitude toward Africa, which he said he had learned about on social media, changed his views. So when his 13-year-old bought him a small Russian flag after watching pro-Russian content on TikTok, Mr. Bagué happily put it on his car’s dashboard. Mr. Bagué said his four children call Mr. Putin “Baba,” or Dad.