Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – The conflict between Russia and Western countries is getting hotter. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the West of wanting not “just” to help Ukraine, but also to destroy Moscow.
Lavrov also blasted European Union head Ursula von der Leyen who visited Kyiv on the same day. His visit with the bloc’s most senior team of commissioners and diplomats came the day before a Ukraine-EU summit.
“Ursula von der Leyen… said that the outcome of the war should be a defeat for Russia, the kind of defeat that for decades, for decades, Russia has been unable to recover its economy from,” Lavrov said in comments broadcast on Russian state television, quoted as saying. AFPThursday (2/2/2023).
“Is this not racism, not Nazism, not an attempt to solve the ‘Russia problem’,” Lavrov added.
In recent weeks, von der Leyen has said that Europe must win in the face of Russian aggression. This is being done through European Union sanctions which have so far left the Kremlin’s economy facing a setback.
Meanwhile, the French Foreign Ministry last week denied the country or its allies were at war with Russia. The statement came out following the decision of the West, namely the United States (US) and Germany, to send heavy tanks to Ukraine.
“The important part is that we do it together and we don’t blame each other in Europe because we are fighting against Russia and not against each other,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on January 25.
The war between Russia and Ukraine is still going on. The attack from Moscow on 24 February 2023 has entered its 11th month and the conflict is still ongoing to this day.
So far Ukraine has succeeded in repelling Russian troops in several of its territories. Kyiv also receives weapons supplies and aid from other countries, especially member countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance.
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