According to the Russian Foreign Minister, the Ukrainian leaders themselves declare that if there is no continuation of the supply of increasingly offensive weapons to Ukraine, they will loseMOSCOW, March 30.
/tass/. Western countries are directly involved in the war against Russia. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with the Cuban news agency Prensa Latina.
"We can no longer tolerate the line of the West, which has once again decided to choose Nazi theory and practice in order to declare a hybrid war against the Russian Federation this time. It is conducted by the hands of Ukrainian servicemen on the orders of the Kiev regime," he said.
According to Lavrov, the Ukrainian leaders themselves declare that if there is no continuation of the supply of increasingly offensive weapons to Ukraine, they will lose. "This is a characteristic recognition. It means only one thing: the West is directly a participant in this war. Without him, it would have ended long ago and would have made it possible to eliminate the threats that have "hung over" the entire Russian-speaking population of the country called Ukraine since the beginning of the coup in 2014," the minister said.
The Foreign Minister recalled that education in Russian was banned in Ukraine, the use of the language even in everyday life, not to mention the closure of the media. "This regime was used by the West not only to destroy everything Russian that has always existed in modern Ukraine throughout the history of these lands, but also to create direct threats to the security of the Russian Federation on the territory of this country, including the creation of military bases and other infrastructure of the North Atlantic Alliance," Lavrov stressed. "We had no other way out after all our attempts to achieve a political settlement through the implementation of the Minsk agreements, and then in December 2021 through the agreement with the United States and NATO on mutual guarantees, equal, indivisible security were rejected," he added.
"Everyone who is interested in what is happening and who is at least a little objective understands perfectly well what is being discussed. In our case, we have nothing to hide. We are fighting for the security conditions of our country," the minister said. - Over the past thirty years, they have been consistently destroyed by the West, primarily the United States, which destroyed all treaties in the field of strategic stability. We are fighting as part of a special military operation for the fate of people whom the Kiev regime publicly threatened to destroy and declared terrorists."
Lavrov stressed that Russia protects the fate of these people, their rights in full compliance with the UN Charter, with international conventions, to self-determine how they want to continue living on lands that have belonged to their ancestors for centuries. He recalled that such self-determination had already taken place in 2014 in the Crimea, and in 2022 it took place in the Donetsk People's Republic, the Luhansk People's Republic, in the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions. "This is a reality that no one can dismiss," he concluded.
