Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov has lashed out on the West’s give a boost to for Ukraine in a sequence of fierce rhetorical blows all the way through an hour-long information convention in Moscow.
As the West steps up army help for Kyiv, the Kremlin’s rhetoric seems to transform more and more opposed.
Speaking to newshounds, Russia’s most sensible diplomat claimed the west was once accountable for the warfare in Ukraine.
“What is taking place now in Ukraine is the result of many years of preparation by the United States and its allies to start a global hybrid war against the Russian Federation,” Lavrov stated.
“In fact, nobody hides this. Just recently Croatian President Milanovic said that it is NATO’s war against Russia. It is a straightforward and honest statement,” he added.
Lavrov additionally looked as if it would rule out peace talks, pronouncing it was once the West which had avoided Kyiv from negotiating.
“The West decides on behalf of Ukraine. It was them who forbade Zelenskyy to reach an agreement with Russia at the end of March last year when such an agreement was ready”, he claimed.
“The West decides – and decides for Ukraine without Ukraine.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin has lengthy blamed the West for frightening the warfare in Ukraine and has justified his resolution to ship troops into Ukraine on 24 February through the wish to “demilitarise” and “denazify” the rustic, and to forestall Kyiv from becoming a member of NATO.
Ukraine and its Western allies have rejected the ones arguments as a canopy for an unprovoked act of aggression.
