Lavrov explained the difference between the bombing of Belgrade and the special operation in Ukraine
Russia had every reason to launch a special operation in Ukraine, while the United States in 1999 artificially created a pretext for the bombing of Belgrade.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov stated this in an interview with Serbian media, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“Now no one remembers how the OSCE mission in Kosovo, led by the American citizen Mr. Volker, was used. He arrived in the village of Racak, where several dozen corpses of Albanians dressed in civilian clothes were discovered. He immediately, although he had no right to do so, proclaimed an act of genocide. Now that hundreds of ethnic Russians in Donbass were subjected to apparent acts of genocide for 8 years, we are told: you have no right to characterize the situation in this way, which should be considered in the UN Security Council. Ukraine even went to court. And then Volcker declared genocide on his own behalf. But it was on the basis of his illegal statement that the West began to bomb Belgrade. Biden demanded that bridges across the Drina River be bombed, which was done. Subsequently, a special commission discovered that the vast majority of the bodies belonged to disguised militants of the so-called Kosovo Liberation Army. But no one is interested in this anymore - a reason has been found,” Lavrov said.
He recalled that civilian objects were bombed: bridges along which traffic flowed, a television center.
“The West thinks it can do anything. And he can twist the facts as he wishes. In both Iraq and Serbia, Western ideologues argued that the establishment of democracy was worth the war. Time magazine then published the headline "The bombing of Belgrade brought peace" The duplicity of our Western colleagues is well known,” Lavrov said.
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