Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.Photo: Retrieved from @KimiriSpeaks Twitter
Russia invaded Ukraine with its superior military power, but the war was not going smoothly, and the Ukrainian army was frequently attacked head-on. As the Russian ground forces were forced to withdraw from the area around the Ukrainian capital Kyiv and regroup, and the flagship “Moscow” of the Black Sea Fleet was sunk, Russia military setbacks are intensifying. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today (26) that he would continue peace talks with Ukraine, but he also warned that the danger of a third world war “is serious and real”.
According to Agence France-Presse, Lavrov criticized the approach taken by the Kyiv authorities in the peace talks in a speech to major Russian news agencies, complaining: “Goodwill has its limits, and if it is not mutual, it will not help the negotiation process. .” And stressed: “But we continue to negotiate with the delegation of (Ukrainian President) Volodymyr Zelensky, and these contacts will continue.” However, Lavrov accused Zelensky, a former actor, of “pretending” to negotiate He pointed out that “he is a good actor”, and sarcastically: “If you carefully observe and interpret what he said, you will find a thousand contradictions.”
Lavrov pointed out that, given the current situation, the danger of a third world war is “real”. “The danger is serious and real and cannot be underestimated,” he told Interfax. Regarding the war of aggression launched by Russia, he is confident that “everything will of course end with the signing of the agreement”, but the specification of the parameters of the agreement “It depends on the current fighting situation at which the agreement becomes a reality.” Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more than two months ago was the largest attack on a European country since 1945, killing or injuring thousands, reducing urban areas to rubble Forcing more than 5 million people to flee overseas.
In an interview aired today, Lavrov pointed out that the supply of weapons by Western countries to Ukraine meant that NATO was “essentially at war with Russia” and that Moscow would see these weapons as legitimate targets, Archyde.com reported. . Lavrov also told Russian state television in an interview published on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry: “These weapons would be legitimate targets of the Russian army during special military operations.” He said: “Storage facilities in western Ukraine have been taken over by Russian forces Locked more than once, how might there be any other way?” and declared: “NATO is at war with Russia through a proxy, and it is arming this proxy, war is war.”
