Muhoozi Kainerugaba, Yoweri Museveni’s son, claimed he would send Ugandan troops to defend Moscow in the event of an “imperialist” threat.
“Call me a +Putinist+ if you want, but we Ugandans should deploy troops to defend Moscow if it is ever threatened by imperialists,” he posted on Twitter.
“The West is wasting its time with useless pro-Ukrainian propaganda,” added the president’s son, a staunch supporter of Vladimir Putin.
He also announced on Thursday the creation of a television and radio channel bearing his brand, “MK.”
Kainerugaba, 48, who is known for making inflammatory statements on Twitter, announced his candidacy for the 2026 presidential race earlier this month.
Yoweri Museveni proclaimed on October 18, 2022, that his only son (he also has three daughters) would no longer tweet on the country’s affairs, following a series of inflammatory tweets in early October in which he notably threatened to invade Kenya.
Uganda has voted against the Ukrainian crisis at the United Nations, including one in February on the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which called on Moscow to withdraw its soldiers from the nation.
On Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov’s tour of Africa in July, Kainerugaba said of Russia, “How can we be against someone who has never attacked us?”
Russia has long had significant relations to Africa due to its support for African independence movements that were at the time fighting colonial powers.
Muhoozi Kainerugaba has long been regarded as a likely successor to his father, Yoweri Museveni, 78.
