agreement without ukraine but it happened not as expected why african leaders refused to submit to putin artem kulyaenarios the battle for africa as a ukrainian we did not come here to ask for any gifts for the african continent, why does the kremlin have african support, what is ukraine doing here, this is an attempt by the russian federation to get engaged for a double or something else vladimir vasilyevich and a new prank game petersburg july 26 local airport representatives of african countries arrive one by one red carpets orchestras hot handshakes such the russians give a warm welcome to the delegates of the russia-africa summit in the kremlin from the very beginning, they hoped that this event would bring a diplomatic breakthrough, the breakthrough happened, but it seems to be in the negative direction, and this becomes clear even before the beginning of the 54 african countries , only 17 heads of state came to russia 10 prime ministers were sent. and the rest were generally limited to secondary representatives , among them there are no presidents, for example, rolanda . kenya did not send an