{"id":23152,"date":"2026-02-01T05:52:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T03:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/putin-praises-russian-military-exports-especially-in-africa\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:34:00","slug":"putin-praises-russian-military-exports-especially-in-africa","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/putin-praises-russian-military-exports-especially-in-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin praises Russian military exports, especially in Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Russian production of military goods was supplied last year to more than 30 countries and the amount of foreign exchange earnings exceeded $15 billion,&#8221; Putin told a meeting on military-technical cooperation in the Kremlin in a pool video.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the sector was operating in &#8220;complicated conditions&#8221;. &#8220;Pressure from Western countries remained and was even intensified to slow down or block business ties with Russia,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But despite all these attempts, our export contracts were on the whole being honoured consistently.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>African countries, he said, were particularly expressing interest in Russian production. &#8220;Despite pressure from the West, African partners are showing readiness to expand their relations with Russia in the military and military-technical fields,&#8221; he said. Russia has been cultivating ties with a string of African countries, including in the domain of military cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Central African Republic in 2018 brought in Russia&#8217;s Wagner mercenaries to fend off rebel groups. Its newly reelected President, Faustin-Archange Touadera, invited Putin this month to visit the country. Russia has also boosted relations with military administrations in Mali and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23153,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[78,26],"class_list":["post-23152","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-featured","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"President Vladimir Putin praised the export record of Russia's military industries on Friday, saying it had expanded its markets and prospects, particularly in Africa, despite Western pressure.","published_date":null,"news_description":"President Vladimir Putin praised the export record of Russia's military industries on Friday, saying it had expanded its markets and prospects, particularly in Africa, despite Western pressure.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26211,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/23152\/revisions\/26211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=23152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}