Fresh Russian threats, an issue now on the agenda: The EU was responsible for unleashing Kremlin anger with Macron and Scholz in favor of the proposal Moldova who wants to be part of the union. “Completely legitimate” declared the French President, “for the candidacy”, emphasized the German Chancellor, also referring to Ukraine. The dispute did not go to the Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrovwho, in an interview with NTV, stated that the West is “clearly trying to make Moldova a second Ukraine”, which is undermining its stability.
“Beg”
Lavrov accused Chisinau of “begging” for supplies gas want a discount on payments. “They say if we don’t do it, they will go to Europe faster, and if we do, they will go anyway, but more slowly,” said the Russian minister, speaking of the nation’s “begging” for Europe. “The consumption-oriented approach of the current Moldovan leadership is very emblematic when they say: ‘Let’s start entering the European Union right away, then we’ll see what they promise us there, then maybe we’ll decide whether we want to be in the Cs stay’ (Commonwealth of Independent States, ed),” added the head of Russian diplomacy, using other terms like “blackmail” and “nonsense”.
“It’s a special mission”
Interviewed by the BBC, Lavrov continued classic Moscow propaganda that Russia had not invaded Ukraine but that it was always the famous “military operation”. Special because we had absolutely no other way of explaining to the West that drawing Ukraine into NATO was a criminal act.” Speaking on behalf of the Federation, Lavrov accuses the West of feeding “fake news” about what is happening in Ukraine spread also “in the past few years” would have happened. He now concedes that Russia is “not spotless on the scene of a bloody military confrontation”, but he is not ashamed: “Russia is not entirely clean, that is what it is. , but we are not ashamed to show ourselves as we are,” he emphasized with a glimmer of clarity and honesty, perhaps for the first time since the conflict began.
Wall against Johnson
The enemies of the Russians are practically everyone: from Ukraine to Moldova, Lavrov could not miss Boris’ England Johnson, very active in helping Kyiv. For this reason, Putin’s minister has now ruled out any diplomatic “leeway” with the current British government. Prime Minister Johnson and his Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, “openly affirm that Russia must be defeated, brought to its knees.