happy with the direction in which russia is moving. they didn t stick around to hear vladimir putin s speech they left the stadium before the president arrived. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. meanwhile, russia and china are to begin a full naval exercise with south africa, off the coast of kwazulu natal. among the vessels is a frigate equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. russia is expected to fire artillery, but not the cruise missiles, during the exercises. the war games will coincide with the first anniversary of the invasion of ukraine this friday, but south africa has denied that this move was provocative, saying that the exercise was organised two years ago. south african opposition politicians say the exercises show their government is siding with moscow in the war in ukraine. angela stent is a senior fellow at the brookings institution in washington, and author of putin s world: russia against the west .
i hope they can and they will because they will be better for it. and here s a sign, perhaps, that some here are less happy with the direction in which russia is moving. they didn t stick around to hear vladimir putin s speech they left the stadium before the president arrived. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. that s the view from moscow meanwhile, on wednesday russia began taking part in a full military exercise with china and south africa , off the coast of south africa itself. among the vessels is a frigate that s a type of warship equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. russia is expected to fire artillery , but not
they didn t stick around to hear vladimir putin s speech they left the stadium before the president arrived. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. meanwhile, russia and china are to begin a full naval exercise with south africa off the coast of kwazulu natal. among the vessels is a frigate equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. russia is expected to fire artillery, but not the cruise missiles, during the exercises. the war games will coincide with the first anniversary of the invasion of ukraine this friday, but south africa has denied that this move was provocative, saying that the exercise was organised two years ago. south african opposition politicians say the exercises show their government is siding with moscow in the war in ukraine. we can now speak to dean cheng who s is a senior fellow with the potomac institute for policy studies and specializes in chinese military and foreign policy. thank you forjoining us. we
that some here are less happy with the direction in which russia is moving. they didn t stick around to hear vladimir putin s speech they left the stadium before the president arrived. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. meanwhile, russia and china are to begin a full naval exercise with south africa off the coast of kwazulu natal. among the vessels is a frigate equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. russia is expected to fire artillery, but not the cruise missiles during the exercises. our africa correspondent andrew harding reports. farfrom ukraine, a formidable russian warship, the admiral gorshkov, docking in south africa today, bristling with long range missiles and branded unapologetically with the letter v, the symbol of russia s invasion of ukraine. so why is democratic
and we will look bad. whether russians will be able to accept that horrible guilt, i don t know. i hope they can and they will because they will be better for it. and here s a sign, perhaps, that some here are less happy with the direction in which russia is moving. they didn t stick around to hear vladimir putin s speech they left the stadium before the president arrived. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. that s the view from moscow, meanwhile, on wednesday russia began taking part in a full military exercise with china and south africa, off the coast of south africa itself. among the vessels is a frigate, that s a type of warship, equipped with hypersonic cruise missiles. russia is expected to fire artillery, but not the cruise missiles, during the exercises. the frigate admiral gorshkov arrived in richards bay, near durban, for the initial drills. south african opposition politicians say the exercises