Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview for the Chinese agency Xinhua that NATO countries are “doing everything” to prevent the current conflict with Ukraine from being ended by political agreements.
According to the senior official, the Atlantic Alliance is arming Ukraine “under the pretense of ‘fighting the invasion'” when in reality the US and EU “intend”. Fight against Russia “to the last Ukrainian” and they are completely indifferent to Ukraine’s fate as an independent international actor.”
However, he assures that the US and NATO can contribute to solving the current crisis, but they have to give up some of the key points of their policy towards Kyiv. “First they should come to their senses and stop deliveries of arms and ammunition to Kyiv. The Ukrainian people do not need it [misiles antiaéreos] spike and [misiles antitanques] Javelin, but the solution of urgent humanitarian problems,” emphasized Lavrov.
Furthermore, the West must stop “whitewashing and whitewashing” Kyiv. Otherwise, Washington, Brussels and other western capitals should be aware of them responsibility for complicity in the bloody crimes of the Ukrainian nationalists,” he claimed.
In this regard, Lavrov called on the Ukrainian authorities to “Cynical provocations‘, including those conducted in the media room. “Ukrainian units, using civilians as human shields, conduct barbaric shelling of cities, as they did in Donetsk and Kramatorsk. They also mock the imprisoned Russian military animal crueltywho published their atrocities on the Internet,” the minister recalled.
The head of Russian diplomacy also attacked the “Western-controlled” global media for using it to frame the Russian army for alleged war crimes.
Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine
On the other hand, the Foreign Minister stated that the delegations of Russia and Ukraine are “really” conducting negotiations via videoconference Daily«, in which the project of an eventual agreement that ends the conflict is discussed. Such pillars should be included in the final document the neutral, non-nuclear status, the demilitarization of Ukraineas well as security guarantees.
Lavrov stressed that the agenda of the dialogue also included the issues of denazification of Ukraine, Recognition of new political realities, the lifting of sanctions, the status of the Russian language, among others. “Resolving the situation in Ukraine would significantly contribute to reducing military and political tensions in Europe and indeed around the world,” he stressed.
Although Moscow is calling for the negotiations to continue, there are certain obstacles. In particular, the Foreign Minister mentioned “martial rhetoric and seditious activities of the sponsors of Kyiv». In this sense, he pointed out that an agreement is possible “if Kyiv starts to be guided by the interests of the Ukrainian people, and not by ‘foreign advisers’. (RT News)