professor gerard towle considers it a wise decision of minister kuleba to start his visit from senegalnegal makysal leads the african union, an organization that includes 55 countries on the african continent, in july of this year, president makisal visited russia and personally met with vladimir putin. africa alone is a territory that is often associated with the russian arms trade and semi-legal mining of rare minerals, experts say that is where the tour of the minister of foreign affairs continues ukraine, dmytro kuleleba, this is the latest news, then podivoar, then ghana, but immediately north of ghana, burkina faso, and north of codivoar mali, this countries where russia is significantly increasing its power and influence, this is related to the sale of weapons and rare minerals. they are trying to monopolize this market. since the 90s, for the russian federation, ties with africa remained just a historical legacy, but with the appearance of the wagner group, with the growth of semi-legal commercial interests mostly in the field of minerals and weapons, we have seen the resumptio