FT – Pretoria’s support underscores Moscow’s propaganda success

SA's foreign minister was all smiles as she hosted Russian counterpart for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.
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By Joseph Cotterill in Johannesburg for the Financial Times

South Africa's foreign minister was all smiles this week as she hosted Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov (above left) for the first time since Russia invaded Ukraine.

Naledi Pandor (above right) said her government, nominally neutral in the conflict, was now less inclined to criticise Moscow due to the west's supply of battle tanks to Kyiv. A repeat of the call South Africa made early in the war for a Russian withdrawal from Ukraine would be "simplistic and infantile, given the massive transfer of arms that's occurred" since, she said at a briefing, with Lavrov beaming on.

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