Lavrov: NATO engages in proxy war with Russia by arming Ukraine

26 апреля 2022

NATO, by supplying weapons to Ukraine, is engaged into a proxy war with Russia, Sergey Lavrov said. Russian Foreign Minister compared Zelensky's behavior with regard to the Minsk Agreements a continuation of his comic career. The politician noted that the Ukrainian leader himself "publicly buried" those agreements, while accusing Moscow of not fulfilling them. Lavrov summed up:  during all this time Kiev has been imitating negotiations on the implementation of the Minsk Agreements.

Sergey Lavrov, Russian Foreign Minister: 

Negotiations to conclude agreements with the Russian Federation were just an imitation.  The alleged Ukrainian democracy was an imitation as well. But in reality, the abolition of democracy, culture and radical dictatorship took place. The Ukrainian armaments will be a legitimate target for the Russian Armed Forces, which are operating under a special operation. The warehouses, including those in western Ukraine, have become such a target more than once. How else could they be? If NATO is essentially going to war with Russia through a prox. 

Sergey Lavrov also stated: the inadmissibility of a nuclear war is Russia's principled position. The danger of such a conflict should not be underestimated.

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