By Suleiman Umaru,
It is no longer news that President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and Emmanuel Macron of France, despite all the support from the North American country of the United States, US, other NATO member countries are no longer finding it funny. Zelensky, home country , Ukraine which had been pushed by the US and other Western nations to go into war with War because of its economic interest appears to be losing the war that he had cried out t President Donald Trump for help just President Macron, of France, had seen the country’s economy heading for a total collapse as most of its former colonies in the West and Central African subregions including East African region have kicked out French companies and closed the country military bases to secure their true impendence.
Zelensky, who appears to have rad the handwriting on the wall that war is as good as having been lost was said to have cried out to President Donald Trump for help as the country is on the verge of collapse. The Ukrainian President who had allowed himself to be pushed around by Presidents Trump, Emmanuel Macron of France, Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany and other Western Leaders was said to have declared that the war with the neighbouring Russia is no longer war but massive destruction of Ukraine.
His major worry was the capture of Propetrovsk city, where there are numerous uranium mines, hydrometallurgical plants and tailings described as the Ukraine’s major industrial base for manufacturing weapons, drones, steel arms, ships and other heavy duty military weapons used in the ongoing war with hand fallen into the hands of Russian Forces. President Zelensky had confirmed that those Russian forces had captured one defense factory or the other in the city which had left the country with nothing to rely on to sustain the over three-year- old war.
Shortly after President Vladimir Putin of Russia had declare war on the neighbouring Ukraine to sound a note of warning to Zelensky not to think of joining NATO, in order to the Western nations into the war, the Russian President was said to have targeted Ukraine military-industrial complex facilities, assembly shops for strike. Already, Russian had taken over control of the Ukranian regions of Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaoprizhia and Kherson.
Russia’s forces were said were said to have advanced near Vovchansk and Lyptsi as it tries to get within artillery range of Kharkiv and to create a buffer zone inside Ukraine’s norther borders to protect Russian territory to forestall Ukraine backed NATO forces attack.
President wants to avoid a repeat of the Ukrainian Forces attack on Murmansk, Irktsk, Ivanovo, Ryazan and Amur, all five regions in Russia Federation which was said to have caused much damage in Murmansk and Irkutsk infrastructural facilities including an oil refinery, military field and electronics factory. Although, the Ukrainian government claimed to have damaged facilities worth over US$7billion in these Five Russian regions which are not possible to verify for now.
Many believes that the dame cause by Ukrainian drones’ attacks on inside the five Russian regions is nothing compared to the massive destruction of Ukraine’s four regions that had been captured by Russian forces and Kyiv, the country’s Capital city.
President Trump, who is expected to to host Putin , his Russian Counterpart, next Friday, August 15, 2025 at Alaska, for talks and even before the talks, he was said to have agreed to allow Russia take over control of all the regions that had been captured from Ukraine in the ongoing war to avoid further destruction of the country and capture of more mineral resources rich endowed regions of the country, which will be a big blow to the US.
President Macron, who may have read the Haband writing the wall that France’s economy is heading for a total collapse as the country has been rejected by the former colonies was said to have begged Abdulrahmae Tchiani, an Army General, and interim President of Niger, he had described as a dictator, to allow to return to the country to continue their uranium mining business on the basis of equal partnership that would benefit both countries economic development and growth.
President Macron, who is no longer talking tough as though African Continent and its resources belong to France may have seen that Africa hold the key to the development of European Union, EU, member countries including France, which had had colonized 22 African countries that he had given his words that France, under his Leadership is ready to reparation and return all the artefacts that had be taken away from the Sahel region state of Niger which are in different Museums I Europe including France.
Ge. Tchiani, the Juncta Leader of Niger who is working closely with other Alliance for Sahel States, AES, like Capt. Ibrahim Traore of Burkina Faso and Gen. Assimi Goita of Mali , may have spoken the mind of the Burkinababe and Malian Leaders when he told the former colonial country Leader to forget about coming back to Niger as the country had the opportunity to use the African country’s resources which the French companies had mined and exported to other parts of the world , like uranium for over 63 years but failed to do so.
Gen. Tchiani, has every reason to give the French President a piece of his mind that he should take his country far away from Niger for peace to reign. Ever since, French military bases were closed in the country and Orano, the French nuclear firm, kick out, Niger, the West African country was paid the US$1 billion annually for its uranium, for the past three years generates US, $300 billion annually, an indications that was actually using the country’s revenue generated from the export of its uranium and other former colonies mineral resources to develop which the African countries remained underdeveloped, particular, the Sahel region, countries, which are now wearing a new look in terms infrastructural development. The Nier interim Leader may have sent a message to the French President that country is ready to dump the use of the use of the France CFA as the United Nations, UN, under the Leadership of Antonio Guterres, was said to have given the AES, countries the approval to go ahead and launch the new currency, SIRA, backed by its gold to replace the French CFA currency. The Nigerien Leader may have also given an insight that of the de-dollarization of the export of its mineral resources but to trade with the BRICs countries including Russia, using the local currency, SIRA. This is bad news to both France and the US, which had been swimming in petrol-dollars over the years from the African mineral resources.
