Sahel: Security Council must call out “Ukraine’s support for terrorism” – Burkina, Mali and Niger

Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger have petitioned the president of the UN Security Council to denounce what they call the Ukrainian government’s “open support for international terrorism” in the Sahel.

A letter dated August 19 and signed by the envoys to the UN of the three Sahelian countries was released on Tuesday (Aug. 20).

The move follows recent comments by Ukrainian officials who said that Kyiv had played a role in attacks by…