Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, during a Feb. 17 joint press conference with Serbian Foreign Minister Marko Djuric just prior to leaving for Riyadh, reminded the Kiev regime’s European backers of the history of that relationship, a history which they’d rather not have recalled.
“I can only say about the results of the Munich conference that everyone must be held responsible for their actions,” Lavrov said regarding the “hysterical statements” made by Western leaders at that meeting. “When you violate justice for years, stamping on your own principles of equality, fair competition, presumption of innocence, inviolability of property, freedom of speech and information, when all these principles are mercilessly trampled underfoot, others’ assets are plundered contrary to the norms of international law, and the Nazi Kiev regime is nurtured and supplied with weapons for killing its own citizens, this will not go unpunished. They did that in the hope of escaping scot-free under a nuclear umbrella. But this will not happen. You will receive what is due for what you have done, as the Bible says.”
Lavrov argued that the Europeans had two chances to help settle the Ukraine conflict. The first time was in February 2014, when France and Germany helped broker an agreement between then President Viktor Yanukovych and the armed opposition, but then let it be “trampled down” by the armed opposition the next morning. Their second chance was the Minsk agreements, which had been laboriously crafted by the leaders of Germany, France, Ukraine, and Russia and endorsed by the UN. Not only did the Ukrainian side begin violating the agreements almost from the beginning, the then-leaders of Germany and France, Angela Merkel and Francois Holland, both admitted after retiring that “they never planned to honour anything. They said that they only needed time to arm Ukraine.”
