February 24 marks one year since Russia went to war against neighboring Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov opened his annual press conference by lashing out at the US and the West. – The EU has completely allowed itself to be cowed by the US dictatorship, said Lavrov, who compared the US to both Hitler and Napoleon in his speech. He also said that the country had gone to war against Russia in Ukraine. – The US, with Ukraine as its proxy, has started a war against our country with the same goal: a final solution to the Russian problem, Lavrov said. – The EU has lost its independence. The press conference is streamed on the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ website, and translated into English. – There cannot be any military infrastructure in Ukraine that threatens Russia’s security, Lavrov continued in his speech. Lavrov claimed that Ukraine is facing a choice. Will they stand with Russia, or the West? The foreign minister believed that Russia is ready to discuss the conflict with Western countries and to consider all serious peace proposals. But so far there have been no proposals that can be taken seriously, he said. Lavrov believed that talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyi were useless, and that the same was the case with talks with the West that only concerned Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov made strong claims in his annual press conference. Photo: Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP – Revolution Lavrov further said in the speech that the US has created a coalition with Europeans against Russia and fought a war against Russia in Ukraine. In the speech, he also strongly criticized the sanctions against Russia. – The sanctions against Russia are aimed at the population in order to create a revolution against the leadership in Russia, he said, among other things. – Just as Hitler wanted to find a solution to the Jewish question, the United States has created a coalition that is waging a proxy war against Russia, said Lavrov, who claimed that the US position is that “we do what we want when we want – until the world end. Neither the US, the EU nor NATO are part of the war. Russia is nevertheless upset that the West supplies military equipment to Ukraine. – The EU has lost its independence, said Lavrov, who believed that the EU has become subordinate to NATO. Supply routes In December, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the Russian military is working on new plans to prevent Ukraine from receiving weapons and ammunition from abroad. – We see that Ukraine is receiving more and better Western weapons. That is why there are calls from military experts to stop these supply routes, Lavrov said in an interview on Russian TV on Wednesday. – Railway lines, bridges and tunnels are considered. I assume they will make professional decisions on how to make these deliveries more difficult, or ideally stop them altogether, he added. On Wednesday, a helicopter crashed near a kindergarten in the town of Brovary, which is outside the Ukrainian capital Kyiv. 16 died and 22 are in hospital after the incident. Ukraine’s interior minister is among the dead. In November, the US believed that around 200,000 soldiers on both sides have either lost their lives or been injured in the war.
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