Lavrov: The More Weapons Ukraine Receives, the More Country it Will Lose
Russia's top diplomat gave a long interview and stated that Moscow is fighting U.S. hegemony.
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Sergey Lavrov, Russia’s top diplomat said Thursday that the more weapons the West provides to Ukraine, the more of land Ukrainians will lose.
He also said Washington is not allowing Ukraine to negotiate for peace.
Lavrov spoke with Dmitry Kiselev, director general of the Rossiya Segodnya International Media Group, and said Western nations, led by the U.S., want the war to continue until any threat to their hegemony is “eliminated.”
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“Nobody objected when [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky prohibited negotiations with Russia by law,” he said, according to RT, the Russian news outlet. Nobody scolded him when he… claimed that he doesn’t understand who makes decisions in Russia and who he should talk to.”
Zelensky, the former sitcom comedian who played the role as President of Ukraine, who got elected as the actual president of Ukraine by promising peace with Russia, called on more weapons from Western countries just days after Germany and the U.S. announced that they would provide Ukraine with tanks.
The Ukrainian president signed a law banning peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Zelensky’ public statements have been consistent: “No one is going to trade a gram of our sovereignty or a millimeter of our territory. Our children are dying, soldiers are being blown apart by shells, and they tell us to sacrifice territory. Get lost. It’s never going to happen.”
Ukrainska Pravda, a pro-Western newspaper, reported that the peace talks came to a halt after former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s visit in the early weeks fo the war. The article stated that “he Russian side…was actually ready for the Zelensky-Putin meeting.”
The report said Johnson arrived in Ukraine “almost without warning” and had two messages.
1: Putin is a war criminal and should be pressured, not negotiated with.
2: Even if Kyiv is ready to sign some agreements, the West has not crossed that bridge.
Since then, the West has only talked about more war and more weapons for Kyiv. Secretary of State Llyod Austin seemed to give a glimpse into Washington’s goals when, in April, he said, “we want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
Lavrov said, “We see how the whole of NATO is waging war against us.”
“We’re now seeking to push back Ukrainian army artillery to a distance that will not pose a threat to our territories,” he said, according to Reuters. “The greater the range of the weapons supplied to the Kyiv regime, the more we will have to push them back from territories which are part of our country.”