The United States envoy to South Africa said on Thursday he was confident that a Russian ship had picked up weapons in South Africa last year, in a possible breach of Pretoria's declared neutrality in the Ukraine conflict.
after the U.S. assertion as currency traders said they were worried that South Africa could now face Western sanctions.
The U.S. ambassador to South Africa, Reuben Brigety, told local journalists in a briefing that Washington was confident a Russian vessel had uploaded weapons and ammunition from South Africa in December. This "does not suggest to us the actions of a non-aligned country", he said in a recording of the briefing heard by Reuters.
During a briefing on Thursday, U.S. State Department deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel did not repeat the allegation that arms had been loaded onto the vessel. He told reporters that Washington had serious concerns about the docking of the ship at a South African naval port and had raised those concerns directly with multiple South African officials.
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