The longer the range of the weapons that NATO provides to Ukraine, “the further away we will move from our territory the line, beyond which Neo-Nazis can threaten the Russian Federation,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warned during an online press conference yesterday. He argued that it is wrong to make the situation boil down to the formula: “had there been no special operation, there would have been no weapons supplies,” which he called a simplification.
“The point is that we had been warning Great Britain, the United States, and other NATO members for 20 years: ‘Dear friends, you signed the commitment in 1999 that no state will strengthen its security at the expense of other states’ security, and so why can’t you do that? Why did it turn out to be a lie? And instead, you say: ‘Get away from us, we admit whom we want.’ And you have expanded five times closer to our borders,” Russia’s top diplomat pointed out.
Lavrov also attributed the Kiev regime’s refusal to negotiate, to pressure coming from the West. “Ukraine does not wish to negotiate. It has refused. We have every reason to believe that by doing so it acted on instructions from the Anglo-Saxon leadership of the Western world,” he said.
