{"id":7070,"date":"2024-10-16T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diamondtvzambia.com\/?p=7070"},"modified":"2024-10-16T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2024-10-16T10:05:08","slug":"ukraine-denies-supplying-drones-to-mali-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diamondtvzambia.com\/staging\/7839\/ukraine-denies-supplying-drones-to-mali-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"UKRAINE DENIES SUPPLYING DRONES TO MALI REBELS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukraine has denied allegations that it had supplied drones to rebels fighting against the Malian army and Russia-backed mercenaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It comes after Paris-based Le Monde newspaper reported reported that Ukrainian drones were providing support for the Tuareg rebels \u201cwho are benefiting from discreet but decisive support from Kyiv\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mali <\/a>‘s junta-led government ended a long-running alliance with former colonial power France in 2022 in favour of Russia in a bid to tackle a years-long insurgency in the north.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But it has been unable to quell the unrest and recently suffered heavy losses, alongside its Russian allies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mali and its neighbours Niger and Burkina Faso, where the military is also in charge, have since accused Kyiv of supporting terrorism in the Sahel after a Ukrainian official said earlier this year that the country had offered support to the rebels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But on Monday, Ukraine’s foreign ministry said in a statement that the country “strongly rejects the accusations that have recently been released by the international media outlets about the alleged involvement of our state in the supply of UAVs [unmanned aerial vehicles] to the rebels in Mali”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It also denied allegations by Malian and Nigerien officials that Ukraine was arming, providing information and giving “support to the terrorist coalition”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It called for an end to “spreading of the false information that repeats the fake narratives of the aggressor state Russia\u2019s propaganda”. (BBC News)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ukraine has denied allegations that it had supplied drones to rebels fighting against the Malian army and Russia-backed mercenaries. It comes after Paris-based Le Monde newspaper reported reported that Ukrainian drones were providing support for the Tuareg rebels \u201cwho are benefiting from discreet but decisive support from Kyiv\u201d. Mali ‘s junta-led government ended a long-running …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7072,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t