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  • South Africa's naval exercise with Russia, China raises Western alarm

    02/16/2023 9:37:44 PM PST · by familyop · 22 replies
    Reuters ^ | February 17, 2023 | Carien du Plessis, Nick Macfie
    South Africa's governing African National Congress has long-standing ties to Moscow, which supported its struggle against a racist apartheid regime that many Western states considered a Cold War ally...said Cobus van Staden of the China-Global South Project. As Russia and China now seek to build new international coalitions, he said that history is coming to the fore in Africa where some nations are keen for alternatives to Western hegemony.
  • Ukraine says Russia plans to disconnect nuclear plant's power blocks from grid

    08/19/2022 3:52:54 AM PDT · by AmericaFirst101 · 46 replies
    Reuters ^ | August 19, 2022 | Staff
    KYIV, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Ukraine's Energoatom state nuclear company said on Friday Russian forces planned to switch off the functioning power blocks at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant and to disconnect them from the Ukrainian power grid. In a statement, Energoatom said it believed Russia, which controls the power plant in southern Ukraine, was preparing to conduct a "large-scale provocation" there. Moscow itself accused Kyiv of preparing a "provocation" at the site on Thursday. (clip) Turning the plant off would pile new pressure on Ukrainian supplies, particularly in the south. Ukraine is already bracing for its most difficult winter...