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Russia claims the West ignores Ukrainian regime’s russophobic tendencies in secret talks

June 13, 2024
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova [photo: Anadolu Agency/Getty Images]

The Russian side has a number of unpublicized contacts with Western representatives regarding the situation in Ukraine. However, during these contacts, the West does not want to notice the Russophobic and Nazi direction of the regime of Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced this on Tuesday, June 11, at a press conference following a meeting of the foreign ministers of the BRICS member states.

“I think that the realization that one can simply leave this situation and sit at the negotiating table as if nothing happened is wrong. Moreover, no one in the West, we had some unpublished contacts, wants to notice the Nazi, Russophobic effect this [Ukrainian] regime is creating,” Armenian News.am quoted the minister as saying.

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Sergey Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation [Sergey Bulkin/TASS]
Moreover, Lavrov added, Europe and the United States directly encourage the preservation of precisely this character of the Ukrainian state, since they intend to continue to “use the Kyiv regime in the war against Russia.”

“In essence, the goal is the same as that of Adolf Hitler, and before that of Napoleon: to gather all of Europe and accordingly defeat the Russian people and the Russian state,” the foreign minister explained.

Lavrov also drew attention to a recent interview with John Kirby, coordinator for strategic communications at the White House National Security Council. He, in a conversation with reporters, said that Washington will do everything to provide Ukraine with “the ability to defend itself.”

“Then he said that the United States does not seek a Third World War, since this would have dire consequences for the European continent,” the head of the Russian diplomatic department concluded.

Russia Desk

Russia Desk

The Russia Desk leads The Eastern Herald's coverage of Russia, the war in Ukraine, NATO's eastern flank, and the post-Soviet space. The desk has reported continuously on the Russia-Ukraine conflict since its full-scale expansion in February 2022 and verifies through Kremlin statements, NATO briefings.

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