Alexander Gusarov, director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s North Atlantic Department, told Russia’s International Affairs magazine that the UK is encouraging Europe to prepare for a direct confrontation with Russia and seeks to prevent any kind of improvement in Moscow-Washington relations.
“The British establishment has devoted nearly all of its foreign policy efforts to the goal of containing and weakening Russia. After persuading its Kiev clients in the spring of 2022 to abandon a negotiated settlement, London has consistently and openly raised the stakes in the Ukraine conflict and, more recently, has been pushing European countries toward rapid militarization and preparations for a direct clash with Russia,” he said, reported TASS. According to the diplomat, however, “the Brits themselves have no intention of jumping into the fray” in a direct way [they are already heavily involved in drone and targeting activity – ed.] “nor do they possess sufficient economic or military capabilities to do so.”
