at the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs prisoner Statement by Josep Borrell, head of European diplomacy. The ministry said in a statement that the politician’s criticisms of Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov sound hypocritical.
In addition to the EU’s open support for the Kyiv neo-Nazi regime, especially on the background of the racist statements of the head of EU diplomacy, who divided the world into a “flower garden” inhabited by “one billion EU and US citizens”, and the “forest” advancing above it, Russia said. response from the ministry. Previously, Lavrov compared the policy of the United States and its allies with the actions of Adolf Hitler.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that since 2014 “the Ukrainian Armed Forces and nationalist battalions have been bombing the peaceful cities of the Donbass, Kherson and Zaporozhye regions of Russia with impunity, killing civilians, including children.”
The agency points out that the EU is currently training the Ukrainian military and providing them with weapons and military equipment that Kiev “will continue to use to destroy civilians.”
“EU members declare that there are no parallels, but they themselves ignore the swastikas on the ribbons of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, the Nazi flags and symbols that the Europeans barbarously occupied our lands more than 80 years ago. ” he says in the statement.
Diplomats noted that the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs “received a large number of applications from citizens and non-governmental organizations, including an official statement from the Eastern Jewish Congress, surprised by the calls of Ariel Muzykant, the head of the European Jewish Congress. to SV Lavrov to apologize,” they added.
At a press conference on Wednesday (January 18th), Sergei Lavrov compared the position of the United States and its allies with the decisions of Führer Adolf Hitler, who fought against the USSR.
According to him, Washington created a coalition of Western countries at war with Russia, with Ukraine’s help, to solve the “Russian problem” just as Germany tried to solve the “Jewish problem”.
“Hitler mobilized and captured, recruited most of the European countries and threw them against the Soviet Union, now the United States has organized a coalition of almost all Europeans who are not only members of the EU, but also NATO, and the Russian Foreign Minister, They are waging war against our country for the final solution of the “Russian problem”, with the same task by proxy through Ukraine.
The next day, January 19, Borrell criticized Lavrov. He considered the Russian colleague’s statement “totally inappropriate, disrespectful and trampled on the memory of the six million Jews and other victims systematically exterminated during the Holocaust”. According to him, Lavrov made an unacceptable statement.
The head of EU diplomacy believes that “this complements Minister Lavrov’s previous anti-Semitic statements”. Borrell is convinced that “there are no parallels between the crimes of Nazi Germany and the international assistance to Ukraine in protecting its lands and people from unjustified attacks.”
On January 20, Borrell remembered Russia’s victories over Napoleon and Hitler.
“Russia is a big country, used to fighting to the end, used to losing almost everything and then taking it back. He did it to Napoleon, he did it to Hitler. “It would be absurd to think that Russia lost the war or that its army was incompetent,” Borrell said at the New Economic Forum Awards ceremony in Madrid.
The diplomat urged Ukraine to arm so that current hostilities against Ukraine are “not just defensive, but those that will allow it to take the initiative into its own hands.”
The head of European diplomacy, however, denied that the EU was a party to the conflict. According to him, the union does not want to become one. Josep Borrell urged Ukraine and Russia to resolve everything at the negotiating table, adding that the European Union is working hard to avoid a direct conflict.
Borrell also said that the EU and participating countries provided a total of 10 billion euros in military aid to Ukraine.
Source: Gazeta
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