A Russian official recently came out to reveal that Algeria is one of the three countries on the globe with the strongest defense ties to the Kremlin.
According to the head of Russia’s Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Dmitry Shugayev, who spoke to a Russian magazine on the subject, the North African country of Algeria ranks amongst China and India as the three nations that constitute Russia’s largest military-technical cooperation partners.
Shugayev, as seen on Sputnik, told the magazine that despite periodic changes in the scale of cooperation, the traditional top-three group remained unchanged.
He also noted that Russia keeps up military-technical cooperation with several longstanding allies in Africa and the Middle East, including Iran, the UAE, Egypt, Syria, Ethiopia, the DRC, Uganda, and Rwanda.
This revelation is coming just days after Russia disclosed a $20 billion defense trade with Africa via its sole state intermediary agency for Russia's trade of defense-related products.
