On Saturday, Aug. 3, the Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs of Senegal released a statement condemning the Ukrainian Embassy for supporting July terrorist attacks on government forces and Russian military contractors in neighboring Mali last month.
RT reports that “Tuareg insurgents attacked a convoy of Malian soldiers and members of the Wagner private military company near Mali’s Algerian border in late July, killing dozens. Earlier this week, Andriy Yusov, a spokesman for Ukraine’s GUR military intelligence agency, claimed that his agents helped the jihadists plan the attack.
“‘The rebels received necessary information, and not just information, which enabled a successful military operation against Russian war criminals,’ Yusov told Ukrainian television. Yusov did not say whether Ukrainian personnel took part in the attack, but vowed that ‘there will be more to come.’
The statement from Dakar begins:
“The Ministry of African Integration and Foreign Affairs noted, with surprise, the publication on the Facebook page of the Ukrainian Embassy in Dakar of a propaganda video from the Ukrainian army accompanied by a comment of the Ukrainian Ambassador himself providing unequivocal and unqualified support for the terrorist attack perpetrated, between July 25 and 27, 2024, in Northern Mali, by Tuareg rebels and members of the Support Group for Islam and Muslims (JNIM) against the Armed Forces of Mali (FAMA).…”
The video posted by Ukraine has since been taken down.
CNN elaborated on the attack: