Servicemen of the People's Militia of the DPR . File photoMOSCOW, June 14None of the citizens of Ethiopia is fighting either in the Donbass or anywhere else, except for peacekeepers, Ethiopian Ambassador to the Russian Federation Alemayehu Tegenu Argau said in an interview with RIA Novosti. Earlier, Russian Ambassador to Ethiopia Evgeny Terekhin said that, despite the large number of requests from Ethiopians , the Russian diplomatic mission in Addis Ababa does not recruit volunteers to Donbass. He explained that the number of applicants daily began to exceed 500 people, including due to rumors spread on social networks that Russia is allegedly ready to pay from 2 to 5 thousand dollars to Ethiopians who entered military service.
The Ethiopian ambassador expressed bewilderment over the demolition of monuments to Pushkin in Ukraine»None of the citizens of Ethiopia is fighting in the Donbass or anywhere else, except for peacekeepers,» the Ethiopian ambassador said. He explained that any embassy is forbidden to recruit foreign citizens to serve in the armed forces, this is illegal under Ethiopian law, and is also a violation of the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations.» Therefore, on April 20, the Ethiopian government issued a press release in which it praised the statement of the Russian embassy in Addis Ababa, refuting unfounded reports of the recruitment of Ethiopians in Russian armed forces,» Tegenu Argau stressed. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbas. .jpg» />Minister of Innovation and Technology of Ethiopia plans to visit SPIEF
