Moscow (dpa -AfX) – The Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov certifies the West negative traditions and “instincts”, which in his view led to the war against Ukraine. This includes weakening competitors, Lavrow said in an interview for a history project. “The methods with which Europe suppressed its competitors are terrible,” he said, referring to colonialism, slavery and the two world wars. “These” instincts “are deeply rooted in today’s European society, especially in the elites that are now in power in most countries of the European Union and NATO.”
These instincts of the ruling class in Europe were shown in the events in Ukraine, “in the war that the West has unleashed against the Russian Federation with the hands of the Kiev regime and the bodies of the Ukrainian citizens”. Lavrow again described the war of Russia against Ukraine as an attempt to “free people as part of a special military operation of National Socialist oppression”. However, in the Baltic States, in Poland and a number of other EU countries, there is a tendency to rewrite history and “the criminals explained by the Nuremberg Tribunal to equate with the liberators of Europe”.
Russia attacked its neighboring country three years ago. According to western observers, the Kremlin wants to prevent Ukraine into NATO and the EU and keep the former Soviet Republic in its sphere of influence