Lavrov: Kiev regime is fabricating dramatic operations to demonize Russia

Moscow (ST): Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov asserted that the Kiev regime and its Western sponsors are fabricating bloody, dramatic operations to demonize Russia in the eyes of the international community.

In an article published by the Russian newspaper Izvestia, Lavrov wrote that, “After the loss on the battlefield, the Ukrainian regime and its Western sponsors do not hesitate to present bloody dramas to distort the image of our country in front of international public opinion, as they did in Bucha, Mariupol, Kramatorsk and Kremenchuk,” noting that the Russian Defense Ministry warns constantly from new, fabricated incidents like this.

Lavrov added: NATO experts are directing Ukrainian forces and Nazi battalions in managing battles against the Russian army and the Donetsk and Lugansk forces, calling on the Europeans to realize the risky consequences of such steps.

Lavrov stressed that granting Ukraine and Moldova the status of a candidate to join the European Union is part of a geopolitical maneuver against Moscow, noting that German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s demand for Russia to conclude a guarantees agreement with Kiev “does not make sense because such a document already exists.”

K.Q.