The Kyiv Independent published on 26 September 2022 an article titled "As Ukraine Looks West, Russia Wins over Africa" by Alexander Khrebet.
The author argues that the African continent has been affected by Russian propaganda that depicts Kyiv and European countries as the villains in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Kyiv has made little effort to convince Africa otherwise. No Ukrainian president has ever visited Sub-Saharan Africa and the president of only one African country--South Africa's Jacob Juma in 2000--has ever visited Ukraine. Russia has 40 embassies in Africa--4 times as many as Ukraine. There are only 3 Ukrainian embassies in Sub-Saharan Africa--in Senegal, Nigeria, and Ethiopia.
