Western politicians do not recognize facts and cannot speak based on them. This is how Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the words of British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak that Russia had allegedly stopped gas supplies.
Russian FM spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's claims about “nuclear escalation” and gas supplies desperate.
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“This was said not only by British Prime Minister Sunak, but also by German Chancellor (Olaf) Scholz, from whose lips it sounds phantasmagorical. For him, the Americans blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, designed to ensure the continued prosperity of Germany. You all know what’s happening to the German economy now,” Lavrov said in Pavel Zarubin’s program “Moscow. Kremlin. Putin,” a fragment of which was published on the journalist’s Telegram channel.
“To declare that Russia has cut off the gas… None of them blush. This is the saddest thing. This means that in the West now there are no politicians who can talk on practiclity and based on facts. They don’t recognize them, they misinterpret them, they try to convince their population and voters not to interfere with this dead-end and catastrophic course for Europe,” the minister added.
