By AP – Times of Israel Dec 1, 2022
Russia’s foreign minister on Thursday accused the West of becoming directly involved in the conflict in Ukraine by supplying it with weapons and training its soldiers.
Sergey Lavrov also said that Russia’s strikes on Ukrainian energy facilities and other key infrastructure that have left millions without power, heating, and water were intended to weaken Ukraine’s military potential and derail the shipments of Western weapons.
“You shouldn’t say that the US and NATO aren’t taking part in this war, you are directly participating in it,” Lavrov said in a video call with reporters. “And not just by providing weapons but also by training personnel. You are training their military on your territory, on the territories of Britain, Germany, Italy, and other countries.”
He said that the barrage of Russian missile strikes was intended to “knock out energy facilities that allow you to keep pumping deadly weapons into Ukraine in order to kill the Russians.”
“The infrastructure that is targeted by those attacks is used to ensure the combat potential of the Ukrainian armed forces and the nationalist battalions,” Lavrov said.
Ukraine and the West have accused Russia of targeting key civilian infrastructure in order to reduce morale and force Ukraine into peace talks on Moscow’s conditions.
Lavrov insisted that Moscow remains open for talks on ending the conflict. “We never asked for talks but always said that we are ready to listen to those who are interested in a negotiated settlement,” Lavrov said.
The Kremlin has urged Ukraine to acknowledge Crimea, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014, as part of Russia and recognize other land gains that Russia has made since sending its troops into Ukraine on Feb. 24. It also has continued to push for guarantees that Ukraine wouldn’t join NATO, along with vaguely formulated “demilitarization” and “denazification” goals.
Asked if a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Joe Biden is possible, Lavrov responded that “we don’t shun contacts” but added that “we haven’t yet heard any serious ideas yet.”
Lavrov said that US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has raised the issue of US citizens imprisoned in Russia in a phone call, but noted that Putin and Biden agreed to set up a separate channel of communication between special services to discuss the issue when they met in Geneva in June 2021.
“It’s working and I hope that some results will be achieved,” he added.
The Biden administration has been trying for months to negotiate the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner and another American jailed in Russia, Michigan corporate security executive Paul Whelan, including through a possible prisoner swap with Moscow.
Commenting on Russia’s decision to postpone a round of nuclear arms control talks with the United States that was scheduled for this week, Lavrov argued that “it’s impossible to discuss strategic stability nowadays while ignoring everything that is happening in Ukraine.”
“The goal has been announced to defeat Russia on the battlefield or even destroy Russia,” he said. “How can the goal of defeating Russia not bear significance for strategic stability, considering that they want to destroy a key strategic stability actor?”
During the online news conference that lasted for 2½ hours, Lavrov ranted against the US and its NATO allies, accusing them of trampling on international law while trying to isolate and destroy Russia.
He claimed that the US has tried to discourage other countries, including India, from maintaining close ties with Russia, but those attempts have failed.
Russia committed the unforgivable crime of expelling the jewish banking mafia
rothschild told them same as he did Hitler that unless they were allowed to rob the country the country would be destroyed
Putin saved the people of Syria
he rebuilt the churches destroyed by the jews and communists
allowed muslims and christians to worship again
he banned the homosexual indoctination in schools
discouraged sex perversion across the board
this is a very good man
and loved here in the UK#where our own politicians are racist self serving scumbags
Jews fear the world is waking up to their crimes
we know what they did in ireland
https://christiansfortruth.com/1923-frightful-massacre-of-jews-feared-if-intensely-hated-jewish-communists-lose-control-in-russia/
ISRAELS CONCENTRATION CAMPS FOR PALESTINIANS
warning strong stomach needed
http://www.renegadetribune.com/the-israeli-run-concentration-camps-of-1948/
We don’t have the same news ie. intelligence the Russians have, and probably they know just how quickly the US and the west are running out of weapons and ammunition. They’ll know when a HIMAR is not being used because its gun crew is dead, or if its supply-line has been cut, or if the US cannot supply it enough rounds to fire.
This depletion may be an important reason why Russia has been slow to roll through Ukraine. It makes sense to deplete your main opponent’s supplies as much as you can before you take your main objective. I believe the eight years since the Maidan was used by Russia to equip itself, which is something the west failed to do to any substantial degree if it runs out of materiel long before the Russians do.
Ukraine is just the start.
The WHOLE of Europe needs to be de-ZOG’ed.. starting with ZOGUK
Hardwired into the West’s “negotiations” with Russia is that Russia is the dupe it was in the Cold War…
To whatever extent the Cold War was a lie by the West—-violently foisted on the public by an OSS/CIA entity—-Russia is playing a chess game with the West with its contributional negotiations being traditional/conventional (predictable) chess-moves to distract from its unconventional game.
India and Russia have been close and cooperative because they enjoy a common border…
China.
@PETER PETHERINGTON
to de-ZOG germany the germans first
would have to learn + understand that
they are the most hated on earth by the
jews . thats not the case . they believe
their shepherd . they have only a little
suspicion about the shepherds dog .
NATO has used the war to dump old weapons in the Ukraine mishmash and now the MIC is using the story of depleted stockpiles of weapons necessitates huge expenditures to restock with all of the latest and less obsolete weapons. A real war or a real threat of war will do to convince their sock puppet legislatures of that alleged “necessity”.
In terms of political manipulations, lobbying, marketing, and the lack of moral limits in their business practices, there are many parallels to be drawn from the practices of Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, and Boeing allegedly to make us “safe” with their death weapons, and Pfizer, Moderna and Johnson & Johnson in allegedly making us “safe” with their death vaccines. The parallels become more striking when you realize that all of their victims are the common people put in situations where they do not have the right to the facts, nor a say in any of these issues, nor the right or opportunity to defend themselves even in our courts.
Fred B–your sentences never quite make sense; you should stick to the language rules that were established