In fighting against Russian-backed “Rapid Support Forces” in Sudan, Ukraine hopes to make the war more costly for Moscow When Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, Sudan’s military ruler, found himself besieged by “RSF” forces in the country’s capital last summer, he called an unlikely ally for help “Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky”.
Zelensky had reasons to take the request seriously: Burhan had been quietly supplying Kyiv with weapons since shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, according to Ukrainian and Sudanese military officials.
