Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Thursday that Moscow “did not attack Ukraine” and has ruled out the possibility of a nuclear war, after his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dimitro Kuleba, in the Turkish city of Antalya, the first they celebrate since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. “We do not plan to attack other countries. We do not attack Ukraine“, said Lavrov, who stressed that the Russian authorities “have explained on many occasions to Ukraine that a situation has arisen that generates direct threats to Russia’s security.”
“Despite our many years of reminders, requests and appeals, nobody heard us“, he stated, before emphasizing that the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, “has expressed in detail” Moscow’s requests on this point, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. He also stressed that “he does not want to believe and does not believe” that a nuclear war will break out in connection with the conflict in Ukraine. “I would like to draw attention to the fact that (…) only Western representatives, mainly NATO members, have brought out this topic,” he explained.
“It is alarming that in the West, according to (Sigmund) Freud, this issue (of the possible outbreak of a nuclear war) continues to be returned again and again,” criticized Lavrov, who has pointed to statements in this regard from the United Kingdom. , France or the United States. On the other hand, he has emphasized that the talks with Kuleba in Antalya did not address the possibility of a ceasefire and has shown his “surprise” at the fact that his Ukrainian counterpart has said that the contacts have been settled without an agreement in this regard.
“No one was going to agree to a ceasefire“, said Lavrov, who pointed out that “all the proposals and the steps for them are well known to the Ukrainian authorities”. “We have not come here to replace the path of negotiations (…) on Belarusian territory”, he has explained, referring to the three rounds of contact between delegations from both countries. Lastly, he reiterated that the Western reaction to the invasion of Ukraine “shows that it is a life and death battle for Russia for its right to be on the political map of the worldwith full respect for their legitimate interests,” according to the Russian news agency TASS.
“We realized that we are not talking about Ukraine, but on the aggression against everything Russian: interests, religion, culture, language, security and so on,” he said, before saying that the war in the Balkans was of interest because there were no very large states in Europe. “Probably the same objective is being sought with Russia”, has settled.
Source: Lasexta
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