Speaking at a press conference following a meeting with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor, Lavrov also noted that this "almost real" war was something that the West "has been preparing for a long time against Russia." The minister claimed that Western powers are seeking to destroy everything Russian, from the language to the culture that had existed in Ukraine for centuries, even forbidding people from speaking their native language.
Lavrov went on to point out that such practices have become commonplace throughout Ukraine and that the country's last two presidents, Pyotr Poroshenko and current leader Vladimir Zelensky, have both turned into "presidents of war" and "Russophobic leaders" after gaining power, despite running their presidential campaigns on the promise of establishing peace.
The minister also recalled that Ukraine has adopted laws that prohibit using the Russian language in education, media, and even in everyday life. "And this is all supported by the West," Lavrov said, adding that this support extends to neo-Nazi marches with swastikas and symbols of banned Nazi divisions being held across the country.
He also accused the West of turning a blind eye to the fact that Kiev's forces continue to deliberately choose targets and carry out attacks in such a way as to terrorize the civilian population.
"The West knows perfectly well that the Ukrainian regime deliberately bombs cities and towns using Western-supplied weapons."Lavrov reiterated Moscow's position that it has not carried out attacks in Ukraine against civilian infrastructure, and that the damage to it is attributable to Kiev's regular practice of deploying heavy weapons and air defense systems in residential areas.
Despite the spiraling tensions, Lavrov noted that Moscow remains open to negotiations with Kiev, and warned that those who refuse talks should understand that the longer they are delayed, the harder it will be to find a solution.
The minister also asked the Ukrainian government to explain, perhaps through a third party, how it sees the situation in the country playing out and the possibility of negotiations with Russia.
Reader Comments
They cannot explain b/c they are Nazi Junta NATO proxytutes whose bluff got called.
Ukronazi’s went Full retard letting Alligator Jaws talk out a Canary’s Ass.
Russia is holding the weapon, but they cannot seem to push the narrative to a point where everyone would agree with the idea of killing the wests civilian population and so they search for global agreements anywhere they gain this agreement.
The fact that western governments are trying to kill their own people seems to evade this part of the narrative. You could blow London up and we all go home and work for our neighbour...but Putin is a puppet employed by the west, and so denial and obfuscation has to be acted out carefully for the deception has already made it's gambit.
Funny how Putin/TrumpBidenBoris and cokesky all started this in TANDEM per the world powers instructions.
That is it.
In a nutshell.
In the court of public opinion, the majority of Americans agree with Putin. The provocation by NATO is the very same issue, in reverse, that Kennedy dealt with in the 1960s - an Americans remember that feeling. Now that Obama is having a third term as President, he is at it again - working for his Master, Lord Jacob Rothschild, to muscle Russia to get on board with the New World Order. Putin will not buckle and might just drop a bomb on Rothschild's little kingdom in central London in response.
The world would be much wiser if it simply arrested all the banksters and used the banksters' stolen cash to pay off all the debt of every country in the world. It would be a much cheaper solution to the worlds problems as well. The banksters scam has run its course - they bring nothing but end up with everything - and they must be dealt with now.
Once NATO stockpiles are properly depleted, and we civilians are fed up with the flailing economy and hardships we pay for to win an unwinnable conflict, then Russia and allies might be so bold as to "attack the centers of power."
Strange people still cannot connect the simple dots (by design?) even relying more heavily on unproveable theory than simply looking at the facts.
Im willing to bet the same people who earmarked the US on the premise of its foreign policy wont apply the same logic to Russia or China, this shows clues to both alternative media's overwhelming hatred for American civilians but it also shows how revengeful the rhetoric is becoming in both bias and memory loss to forget to follow through on holding the same standard for war in general (the unspoken choosing of sides is evidenced). Once you realise that bread is the main dietry source of energy in developing countries, relient on the war areas for grain production it leaves those who rely on the efforts of geopolitical plunder (not agricultural efforts) to be witnessed as and felt as an international impotency, a gradual decline of inertia to throw woodworm at the wooden floor of civilization.
Russia's efforts to protect those who "reap but do not sow" are in panic.
The west doesnt need gas or cheap chinese rubbish, it needs simply to be left alone and it would otherwise be allowed to continue on its own efforts of self sufficiency. This is bad news for the Middle East (the canker worm!) but the west has always utilized the land (commanded to dress the land...) and so this is about cutting off supplies in tandem with preventing national self sufficiency. All you need is one devestating agricultural season and RUSSIA CHINA ISRAEL are finished. It's not called famine for nothing.
Wake up folks, they’re fleecing YOU. Again.