The delegation of African leaders obtained no significant concessions from either side after meeting Russian and Ukrainian presidents
For 26 hours last week, a South African airplane sat stranded on the tarmac of a Warsaw airport, filled with 120 bodyguards and 12 crates of weapons that were intended to protect President Cyril Ramaphosa during an African peace mission to Ukraine and Russia.
The peace mission was led by four presidents – from South Africa, Zambia and Senegal, along with Comoros, whose leader chairs the African Union – and senior officials from three other countries: Uganda, Egypt and the Republic of Congo. Despite a variety of voting stances on the Ukraine issue at the United Nations, all seven African countries claimed to be non-aligned and eager to negotiate peace.
Mr. Ramaphosa, whose own plane had arrived in Poland earlier, was able to board the overnight train to Kyiv with the other African leaders, but further problems awaited them there. Russia, and the African leaders were hustled into a hotel basement for safety. When the missiles were knocked down by Ukrainian air defence systems, Mr.
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