"Therefore, Western military bases, not to mention all bases foreign to the territory, to Africa, must leave the African continent. All foreign bases that are not African bases, in our opinion, in our vision, must leave African territory," he argued.
"If Russia had perhaps not been there [on the Africans' side], maybe we wouldn't be talking about independence for some African countries," he said.
"When we were occupied, that's right, we need to tell the truth as well. When what we call the independences happened, who came to the aid of the Africans? It was Russia, the USSR, and Cuba. Against whom? Against whom? Not against some aliens; it was against the West," he noted.
"Russia has always been on our side, as has the USSR, from which Russia emerged. They have all stood by us. They even had soldiers who came and died for us. That is a reality," Groubera also pointed out.