Question: Westerners used to insist that Russia was allegedly violating someone’s territorial integrity, but now they are silent.
Sergey V. Lavrov: They always told lies and got confused in their testimony (this is how we characterize such situations). They stated that they did not allow the Ukrainian leadership to use Western long-range weapons against the internationally recognized territory of the Russian Federation.
At the same time, other officials from Washington, London and some European capitals said that Ukraine decides for itself how to defend its sovereignty. The Germans went so far as to declare: allegedly, when they handed over weapons to Ukraine, they were already its weapons, and they had nothing to do with it. It’s shameful.
To a certain extent, this speaks to the growing despair of the West, the inability of V.A. Zelensky to fulfill his assigned mission and the fact that Ukrainian leaders are in a desperate situation. They are already looking for a replacement. In the German and American media, V.A. Zelensky is already beginning to “merge” and create an image of a loser for him. We’ll see.
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