Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, in an interview on Rossiya 1 TV yesterday, accused the U.S. of using others to isolate Russia, particularly in regard to efforts to label Russia a state sponsor of terrorism. “They are using others to materialize their idea [to add Russia to this list]. As a matter of fact, the Baltic states have already spoken out on this topic,” she said, reported TASS. She stressed that the West has failed to isolate Russia, as it has failed to cancel Russian culture and history. “It did not happen. The world has paid no heed to everything Washington was saying. The West has self-isolated from our country and then it triggered Plan B—to do harm wherever possible. Mostly by proxy,” she said, adding that Washington prefers to do it via those countries, that joined the European Union not long ago.
She recalled that Moscow has clearly explained to Washington what the consequences of this step, of listing Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism, may entail. “If they can read, they probably understand. We have said that many times—not only orally, but also in written commentaries, and even translated them into English. So, the question is to the people we deal with. But everything has been said many times,” Zakharova stressed.
Zakharova, in the same interview called what the Kiev regime is doing at the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant “nuclear terrorism.” “Let us call things by their proper names. It is what can be called nuclear terrorism, when combat operations and targeted shelling are conducted against an operating nuclear power plant. Is the Kiev regime indulging in all types of provocations, so to say, on its own? Of course not,” she said, and observing that the West has apparently forgotten about the aftermaths of the Chernobyl and Fukushima disasters. “They are simply doing the bidding,” she said. “It looks incredible that people living on the European continent don’t see what is being done to them. But, again, it is a global manipulation, which is being done right before our very eyes,” Zakharova emphasized.
