South Africa and several other Southern African states abstained from the United Nations resolution against Russia due to nostalgia for the Soviet Union's support of their liberation struggles during the apartheid era and the Cold War.

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• The Geopolitics of the Russian-Ukrainian War: Implications for Africa ... eu-opensci.org European Journal of Development Studies via serper

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• South Africa location
• United Nations entity
• Cold War event