Lavrov explained the Ukrainian conflict as a centuries-old confrontation between Russia and the West
The threat to Russia in recent centuries has always come from the West.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced this while speaking to students at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
“The big misfortune for us has always come from the West over the past centuries, while Russia was growing into Siberia, gathering under its wing the different peoples of the earth in the east. The experience of coexistence of different ethnic groups within one state allows the Russian Federation to promote the development of dialogue between different cultures, religions, and civilizations,” Lavrov said.
The conflict with the West, according to the minister, has not yet been resolved. The roots of many current problems lie in the desire to push the Eurasian power Russia to the margins.
“It got to the point where they wanted to put Ukraine and other CIS countries in front of a false choice: you are either with Russia or with Europe. Such an ultimatum was beyond the strength of the already internally fragile Ukrainian statehood. The result is a deep crisis in the very center of the European continent, directly on the borders of Russia and the West,” Lavrov said.
He believes that the prospects for resolving the Ukrainian conflict and implementing the Minsk agreements are not yet visible.
“First of all, due to the lack of political will and a realistic vision of the future of their country among the Ukrainian leadership. Because of his attempts to solve Ukraine’s problems not on the basis of pragmatic interests, but at the behest of external sponsors, who are alien to the aspirations of Russians, Ukrainians and the Eastern Slavs in general,” Lavrov said.
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