Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov reiterated in no uncertain terms on Feb. 5 that resolving the conflict in Ukraine is less about territory than it is about ending the existence of a regime, sitting on Russia’s border, which has banned “everything Russian”— people, language, religion, culture, education—and views that large ethnic minority not as human beings, but as “subhumans,” as “creatures.” If they wish to perpetuate this particular regime with security guarantees (it does not matter on what territory), this is unacceptable,” Lavrov stated (emphasis added).
Anyone serious about reaching the urgently-needed peaceful settlement to the horrid Ukraine conflict should either read or watch Lavrov’s Feb. 5 interview with RT’s Cuban-American TV host Rick Sanchez. Western lies and continuous efforts to “move the goal posts” on any settlement have taken their toll. Russia “remains ready for a diplomatic solution,” Lavrov said, but “our patience is not endless. We have a proverb—measure seven times before you cut once—which says volumes about the Russian character. We have been measuring very carefully for a long time now and drawn our conclusions.”
Lavrov details how lying Western leaders acted in 2004, 2014, 2015 and 2022 to install a Nazi regime on Russia’s borders. “They gathered almost all of Europe under the same Nazi banners” as under Hitler, except “not yet on the battlefield, but as donors, sponsors, arms suppliers, and ideological leaders and, under the same Nazi banners, they engaged the Ukrainian army and mercenaries from different countries, as well as official instructors from NATO countries. We are aware of this….
”... [S]ince 2019, the regime under Zelensky has consistently adopted a dozen laws that prohibit at any level Russian education, culture, media, the canonical Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and legalize the theory and practice of Nazism, including the already implemented practice of installing monuments to the criminals convicted during the Nuremberg Trials.
“When we keep hearing about security guarantees, I want to ask a simple question: the security guarantees for which state are you talking about? The only state in the world where the Russian language is prohibited? Arabic is not prohibited in Israel. Hebrew is not prohibited in the Arab countries. No other country prohibits a language….
