Russia President Vladimir Putin
We have taken note of the demurring correspondence of Moscow to the undeniable fact that it is their invasion of Ukraine and its attendant fallouts on international trade which has created challenges for our economy and the rest of the world.
We are aware about the abhorrence of Vladimir Putin to the use of the reference ‘invasion of Ukraine’ and how media establishments which insisted on that description have been shut and their staff fled Russia.
Fortunately in our country, freedom of expression prevails and we are free not to consider the invasion as a special operation as Putin would want it to be regarded.
For a part of the globe which produces the bulk of wheat consumed by the rest of the world, not forgetting gas and crude oil, we do not have to be rocket scientists to regard the current economic challenges the world is enduring as emanating from the invasion.
The reaction of Moscow, through their embassy in Accra, needless as it was, did not meet the standard of sincerity. It is at best the trademark Russian propaganda which has no place here in Ghana.
In a global village in which we all belong, the fallouts of wars or even an invasion, as is being played out in Ukraine by a bullying world power, are felt worldwide.
Having told the world earlier that they were not going to enter Ukraine but eventually doing so, we can clearly see the mendacity in the Russian response.
We can understand the pain of Moscow at this time when it has earned the ire of the rest of civilised world and becoming largely isolated because of the death it is visiting on a sovereign country.
Thousands of Ukrainians have died and continue to do so because that fits the game-plan of Vladimir Putin.
Post-COVID-19 fallouts and their attendant negative impacts on economies, and for that matter our own country notwithstanding, the effects of the Russian invasion is akin to the depression following WWII or even worse.
Our Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, did not err when he, like others around the globe,attributed the disarrayed state of worldwide economies to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Apart from having the blood of Ukrainians on his hand, Vladimir Putin and he only, should be held responsible for the current state of our economy and continual mounting of casualties in the theatre of war.
But for the intervention of the government, the prices of petroleum products would have gone beyond the current painful level in Ghana.
We would not be cowed into changing our stance on the negative impact of the invasion by Russia of Ukraine. That, for us, is the truth and nothing but the truth regardless of the ranting of Moscow through its mission in Accra.
Let the guns go silent, so the invading Russian troops will return to their bases in the homeland for normalcy and even growth to return to the ailing economies.