Opinion | Egyptian National Security and Ethiopia’s Russian Arms Deal: Strategic Interests and the Pressure of Sanctions

On 28 October 2026, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced from Moscow, on the sidelines of the Russia–Africa Summit, that Ethiopia had received 12 Su-35 fighter jets and would subsequently take delivery of four batteries of the S-400 air defence system. He thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin for expediting the deliveries by a full year […]