May 13, 2022
“The European Union has transformed itself from a constructive economic platform as it was created into an aggressive and militant actor that is already declaring its ambitions far beyond the European continent”. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia has “serious doubts” about the harmlessness of Ukraine’s EU accession, the minister added at a press conference after the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CSI) in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The statements made by Putin’s supporters after the NATO fall against Finland and Sweden sound like a “declaration of war” on Europe. And the world trembles.