The Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated that Kiev's statements and crimes confirm the need to continue its work until its tasks are fully fulfilledMOSCOW, April 21.
/tass/. The open arguments of Western countries about the "upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive" confirm their direct involvement in the conflict in Ukraine. This is stated in a message distributed on Friday Ministry OF Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.
"The United States and its NATO allies do not stop pumping weapons into the Kiev regime, insist on continuing hostilities and demonstrating the effectiveness of Western military assistance on the battlefield. The Anglo-Saxons openly talk about the upcoming Ukrainian counteroffensive. They even call the dates of its beginning. All this confirms their direct involvement in the conflict and participation in the planning of military operations," the diplomatic department stressed.
At the same time, as the Russian Foreign Ministry pointed out, "at the same time, the military appetites of [Ukrainian President Vladimir] are growing Zelensky." "He does not get tired of demanding new and modern types of weapons from the West, including for striking deep into the territory of Russia. Today, at the next meeting of the contact group on Ukraine in the Ramstein format, Kiev intends to request urgent supplies of air defense systems and long-range missiles," the message reads.
"However, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the United States and Europe to satisfy Kiev's applications," the ministry continued. - A lot of publications have appeared in the Western media about the depletion of stocks of NATO weapons in key European states. <...> But the West is not going to stop supplies yet. They understand that the refusal to help Ukraine, as German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius put it the other day, could lead to its immediate end."
The Russian Foreign Ministry also drew attention to the "virtually ultimatum" presented by Kiev to NATO about the need for Ukraine's membership in the alliance. "Apparently, the unconditional support of the West has so corrupted the already arrogant and unprincipled Zelensky regime that he is losing his sense of reality before his eyes and will soon completely believe in his own exclusivity," the foreign ministry concluded.
Statements of Ukrainian officials
The Ministry drew attention to "another batch of extremist statements by some officials of Ukraine," in particular to the words of the adviser to the head of the office of the President of Ukraine, Mikhail Podolyak, who, "talking about the situation around the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, openly stated that today the Kiev regime has a unique chance to quickly and painlessly physically "clean up" a large number of pro-Russian people."
"Such rhetoric and criminal actions of the Kiev regime confirm the need to continue a special military operation until the tasks of denazification and demilitarization of Ukraine are fully completed, and threats to Russia's security emanating from its territory are eliminated," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry recalled that Podolyak "promised to punish the residents of Crimea and Donbass for their desire to link their future with Russia." "He is echoed by the mayor of Dnepropetrovsk, renamed Dnipro, Boris Filatov, who says that Ukraine does not forgive insults," the diplomatic department added.
