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Russia is the global supplier of destruction, misery and hunger

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Service members of pro-Russian troops are seen atop armoured vehicles in the Donetsk region, Ukraine. [Reuters]

When I first came to Kenya as the Ambassador of Ukraine, which was long before the terrible tragedy of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of my country, I had the opportunity to visit one of your beautiful game parks.

And while being driven around those endless rolling plains of the African savannah, I remember wondering if the vast plains of my own country had once looked like this, perhaps a few hundred years ago: full of wild animals and breathtakingly beautiful.

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