Kyiv is actively provoking a confrontation between NATO and Russia – Lavrov
NATO countries are hovering in their own reality of a total threat from Russia, and Kyiv is only adding fuel to the fire of anti-Russian hysteria in order to divert the attention of the world community from the sabotage of the Minsk agreements and the gross violation of the rights of Russians in Ukraine.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this at the Moscow Conference on International Security, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“NATO’s actions to “contain Russia” - we are convinced that this course is consistent in the documents of the last summit (NATO summit in Brussels - ed.), lead to an escalation of the military-political situation in Europe. At the summit, the alliance once again confirmed its inability to go beyond the reality it itself invented.
In particular, NATO strategists again imagined aggressive actions by Russia. Strictly speaking, we did not expect anything else, but for our part we remain open to an honest and professional dialogue.
Our constructive, subject-specific proposals aimed at reducing the military threat along the entire line of contact between Russia and the North Atlantic Alliance have remained on the table for almost 2 years, but there are no answers to them. NATO doesn’t want to communicate at all through the military, this is a democratic alliance,” Lavrov noted.
“Of course, any attempts to improve politics in the Euro-Atlantic are met with an attempt by the Kyiv authorities, who are provoking a confrontation between NATO and Russia, in an attempt to divert attention from the sabotage of the Minsk agreements, approved by the UN Security Council, which have become part of international law.
I would like to once again urge the Western states that patronize the authorities in Kyiv to influence their wards and force them to fulfill their obligations, to stop the aggressive attack on Russians and other minorities,” the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry urged.
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