South Africa provided a shipment of weapons to Russia in December, according to a senior U.S. diplomat who warned that such aid could jeopardize ties w/ Washington. 'The arming of the Russians is extremely serious,' the lead US envoy in South Africa said.
“The arming of the Russians is extremely serious, and we do not consider this issue to be resolved,” Ambassador Rueben Brigety, the lead U.S. envoy in South Africa, told reporters Thursday.The weapons transfer took place in December, according to Brigety, just a week before President Joe Biden hosted a U.S.-Africa summit in Washington.
“Evidence suggests over the past two nights there was unusual activity in the harbor with ship-mounted cranes offloading cargo from the Russian commercial vessel onto trucks,” said South African lawmaker Kobus Marais, shadow defense minister in the Democratic Alliance opposition party, in a contemporaneous demand for information from the South African ruling party. “There was also truck movement transporting containers in and out of the naval base. The trucks were protected by armed personnel.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s team struck a more congenial tone, even while reiterating Brigety’s allegation.
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