Zakharova wrote about this in her Telegram channel.

She cited media reports that the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said that "Poklonskaya will not hide from Ukrainian justice in Africa either."

“Let them first try to apply Ukrainian justice on the territory of Ukraine, and then tackle Africa,” said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree appointing Natalya Poklonskaya as Russian Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to Cape Verde.

Poklonskaya served as Prosecutor of the Republic of Crimea from March 2014 to October 2016.