Confusion emanated from the department of international relations and cooperation’s statement that contradicted the president’s stance.
Ukrainian service members look for unexploded shells after a fighting with Russian raiding group in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv in the morning of 26 February 2022. Photo: Sergei SUPINSKY / AFP
It called on Russia to withdraw from the Ukraine, while the Presidency has adopted the more noncommittal stance of calling on the United Nations to bring Ukraine and Russia to the negotiating table. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s deliberate ploy not to pick a side is a genuine strategic move not to make enemies unnecessarily. The easiest thing to do would be to criticise Russian President Vladimir Putin because war is devastating.
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