Highlights of Lavrov’s speech;
We support an independent state, we support multiculturalism, we support diversity. NATO is manipulating. It is not acceptable for Ukraine to be under extremist methods, but it is also unacceptable for the Russians to commit genocide. We’re not invading Ukraine. Look at what our critics have done in the past.
We’ve said it before; We said Georgia couldn’t be a member of NATO. Germany and Farnsa decided to give a concession instead of direct membership.
We want everyone living in Ukraine to exercise their rights, we want them to live without any pressure. The Ukrainian people have suffered enough. Nobody wants the U.S. military there.
We have always advocated diplomatic solutions and our mission has been to continue diplomatic efforts. They were told what to do in Minsk and they wanted to change those decisions. Territorial integrity had to be ensured. These regions have economic ties to Russia. These are important issues. There’s supposed to be a truce. Economic barriers had to be removed, and at the same time the elections had to be under the right conditions in Ukraine, which was rejected. The West wouldn’t listen to us.
Meeting with the people’s republics of Lugansk and Donetsk at the level of foreign ministers, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said that Ukrainian leader Zelenskiy was lying, that the purpose of his operation was to save the Ukrainians from persecution, that they had no plans to invade Ukraine.
Lavrov met in Moscow with Vladislav Deynego, Foreign Minister of the Lugansk People’s Republic, and Sergey Peresada, deputy foreign minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic.
As part of the meeting, which is the first meeting with representatives of the LHC and DHC foreign ministries, Lavrov said the most important issue of the meeting would be the fulfillment of duties in line with the agreements signed with the two republics.
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Lavrov’s statements are as follows:
Together, the West denies the reality of the genocide in Ukraine.
Russia is preparing a special exhibition on the situation in Donbass for the UN Human Rights Meeting.
While the West supports the Ukrainian regime, it has turned a blind eye to Kiev’s military crimes against the civilian people. The actions of the West and Ukraine have plunged Ukraine into tragedy.
The West allowed Ukraine to kill women, children and the elderly, destroy civilian infrastructures, and quietly encouraged the rapid rise of neo-Nazism and Russophobia.
The West sided with the Kiev regime in sabotaging the Minsk agreements and ultimately destroying them. NATO and the
European union have protected Kiev in recent weeks as it attempts to finally seize the DHC and LHC by force. Kiev. He said there was no alternative but for Ukraine to enter NATO and threatened to acquire nuclear weapons. In this case, we could not remain indifferent to the request for help.
Within the framework of our alliance responsibilities, Russian President Vladimir Putin decided to operate to rid Ukraine of militarism and Nazism so that ukrainians could escape this persecution and freely determine their own future.
I spoke to representatives of the DHC and LHC about organizing the activities of embassies, and their work on the basis of agreements and legal basis.
We agreed to keep in touch.
We discussed the agreement on intergovernmental agreements in the military and technical field and in the field of economics.
Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelenskiy lied about Russia rejecting the talks, refusing to work towards the implementation of the decisions taken in the Normandy talks.
More than 110,000 migrants have arrived in Russia from the people’s republics of Lugansk and Donetsk.
We see no opportunity to democratically accept the current Ukrainian administration.
I hope that all restrictions imposed by Kiev on The Donbass within the framework of the trade blockade have been left behind.
No one has any plans to invade Ukraine.
We discussed the opening of embassies with representatives of Donetsk and Lugansk.
Zelenskiy lies when he says he wants to discuss Ukraine’s neutrality status.
We are interested in ukraine ending up being an externally controlled country and a tool used to subdue Moscow.
Lugansk: Russia’s action will bring peace to Donbass
Lugansk Foreign Minister Deynego said Russia’s special military action to ‘disarm Ukraine and purge the Nazis’ was an effective tool to bring peace to Donbass.
Under the friendship, cooperation and cooperation agreement signed between Russia and Lugansk, they requested support and protection from Russia under the current circumstances, Deynego said. Ukraine continues to fire, and immediately after the recognition decision, the number of ceasefire violations increased tens, perhaps hundreds of times. Large-scale attacks that disrupted the entire border, Ukraine’s response to Russia’s move, and we have no other way out.”
Deynego said he hopes Russian support will bring the date of the end of Ukraine’s attacks significantly closer.
