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War in Ukraine: African Ex-president backs Russia, Hails Putin, Full Speech Surfaces

Tuesday, March 08, 2022 at 2:08 AM by Onyirioha Nnamdi

Jacob Zuma's position on Monday, March 7, on the Russian invasion of Ukraine caught the attention of the media globally
In a tweet from JGZuma Foundation owned by the former South African president, he said Vladimir Putin's position was justifiable
Zuma through his foundation also described the Russian president who has attracted numerous international sanctions to the nation as a man of peace

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Jacob Zuma, a former South African president, on Monday, March 6, lent his full support to the Russian invasion of Ukraine led by Vladimir Putin.

In a statement shared on Twitter, Zuma, through his foundation, JGZuma Foundation, described Putin as a man of peace and his position on the war as justifiable.

Putin hugging Zuma — The former South African president said Putin's actions are justifiable (Photo: @zungu_zakhele)
Source: Twitter

Part of the foundation's statement seen by BBC read:

"We all need peace in this world. Therefore we would like to urge those involved to bring peace as swiftly as possible so that lives can be saved."

War in Ukraine: Bad news for Putin as international hacking group hacks Russian government sites

Meanwhile, some Russian government websites continued to be down on Saturday, as the country's invasion of Ukraine was on its third day.

The websites that were dark notably included the Kremlin and the Ministry of Defence.

The exact reasons for the outages are not immediately clear, but the international hacking group Anonymous has claimed that it is attacking the sites.

"Anonymous has ongoing operations to keep .ru government websites offline, and to push information to the Russian people so they can be free of Putin's state censorship machine," the group said in a tweet.