Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during a joint press conference with his counterpart in Mozambique yesterday, slammed British involvement in Ukrainian terror attacks inside Russia. “London is one of the main string-pullers, those who are inciting the whole West to support Ukraine more and more openly and more seriously,” he said, reported TASS. “The British foreign secretary has speculated on television or on social media that Britain does not encourage strikes on Russian territory proper, but the Ukrainian authorities and the Ukrainian armed forces allegedly know better how they should secure their territorial integrity. [This is] direct incitement to what the terrorists in Kiev have been doing.”
Russia’s embassy in London also issued a statement slamming Foreign Secretary James Cleverly’s remarks in Estonia. “The hostile statements by Britain’s top `diplomat’ cannot be viewed as anything but an attempt to encourage the Kiev regime to carry out more attacks on civilian facilities and our civilians,” the embassy said. “Apparently, from their windows, the Foreign Office — or Estonia — sees residential blocks in Moscow as `legitimate military targets’,” the embassy said. “We assume that such statements should mean that Cleverly himself is ready to take responsibility for the damage and suffering caused to the Russians as well as for the extremely dangerous escalation of the conflict,” it added.
