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By Akinwande Soji-Ojo
Russian foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, on Monday revealed that the ongoing special military in Ukraine was to put and end to United States global domination.
In an interview with state-owned media, Rossiya 24, on Monday, Lavrov said Moscow won’t succumb to pressure from abroad.
He said: “Our special military operation is designed to put an end to the reckless expansion and reckless course towards complete domination by the United States and, under them, the remainder of Western countries on the world stage. This domination is built with egregious violations of international law, and in accordance with some [unclear] rules, which are imposed on occasion.
He also criticised European Union’s top diplomat , Josep Borrell, for his latest statements, after the diplomat announced that the crisis in Ukraine should be resolved via military means.
Borrell also urged member states of the bloc to provide Kiev with the weapons it has asked for.
Lavrov stated that after such claims, the rules have changed drastically, adding that Borrell had either got personal, slipped up, or even stated something he was not authorised to say.
“This is an utterly serious change, even in the policy that the EU and the West under US leadership – there is no doubt about it – began to pursue after the start of our special military operation. A policy that reflects anger, in some ways even frenzy, and which, of course, is determined not only by [the situation in] Ukraine, but by Ukraine being transformed into a foothold for the final suppression of Russia,” the minister said.
Lavrov also said there is a possibility that Ukrainian troops, backed by Western intel services, will conduct new provocations, citing a recent incident in Donbass, when Kiev’s forces tried to blame Russia for their own attack on the city of Kramatorsk.
Lavrov noted that after Russia showed the real data about the incident, the whole scandal was promptly swept under the rug.
The situation remains tense in Ukraine, as Russian forces continue the special operation, launched in February in response to the alleged mass shelling of Donbass.
President Vladimir Putin stressed that the operation was begun in order to stop the war against the people of Donbass waged by Kiev, which he called genocide.
He added that Russia’s goal is the demilitarisation and denazification of Ukraine.
