Factors Influencing Relations Between Ukraine and African States, 2022–2025

This study examines Ukraine’s challenges in pursuing the African direction of its foreign policy during the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in 2014 and intensified from in 2022 on. It analyses the processes of intensifying Ukraine’s cooperation with African states, evaluates the outcomes of the African vector of Ukraine’s foreign policy, and assesses future prospects for the development of Ukraine’s relations with African states in terms of existing obstacles and emerging opportunities. The article systematises the key problems that Ukraine faces in the development of relations with African states and investigates the factors that influence Ukraine’s cooperation with African states. For a long time, the African media space rarely focused on Ukraine. The study identifies the main barriers to a sustainable cooperation between Ukraine and African states, including the absence of a long-standing tradition of cooperation, limited mutual understanding of needs and priorities, differences in political regimes, and other constraints.