{"id":269325,"date":"2023-05-29T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T08:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269325"},"modified":"2023-05-31T07:37:31","modified_gmt":"2023-05-31T07:37:31","slug":"moscow-warns-west-against-playing-with-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=269325","title":{"rendered":"Moscow Warns West Against \u2018Playing with Fire\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fars News \u2013 May 29, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The US and its allies are \u201cplaying with fire\u201d by doubling down on their support for Kiev amid the conflict with Moscow, including by planning to provide Ukraine with F-16 fighter jets, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, it\u2019s an unacceptable escalation,\u201d\u00a0Lavrov stated regarding potential deliveries of American-made warplanes to Kiev in an interview with Russia 1 TV on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think there are reasonable people in the West who understand this. But everything is being dictated by Washington, London, and their satellites inside the EU,\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the minister, it is Poland and the Baltic States \u2013 Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia \u2013 that are\u00a0\u201cexecuting on the ground the aim set by the US to weaken Russia, deliver it a strategic defeat”.<\/p>\n

Some in the West\u00a0\u201care already discussing \u2018decolonization\u2019 of Russia, meaning the dismembering of our country\u201d, Lavrov said, warning that\u00a0\u201cthis is playing with fire. There can be no doubts about that”.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope reasonable people will step away from unconditional support for the neo-Nazi regime that the West itself created,\u201d\u00a0he added.<\/p>\n

The foreign minister suggested that the words of the chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, who acknowledged earlier this week that \u201cin the near term\u201d, Ukraine will not be able to recapture the territories it lost to Russia, were a\u00a0\u201cstep forward to understanding the reality on the ground”.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been pressing his Western backers for F-16 warplanes for months, arguing they are crucial for defending Ukrainian airspace amid Russia\u2019s missile campaign targeting military facilities and energy infrastructure.<\/p>\n

At the G20 summit last week, US President Biden Joe Biden said that Washington would support efforts by the UK, the Netherlands, and other European countries to train Ukrainian pilots to fly the F-16. White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan stated at the event that the US\u00a0\u201cwill work with our allies to determine when planes will be delivered, who will be delivering them, and how many”.<\/p>\n

Several outlets reported that the jets will not be provided by the US, but that the Biden administration would instead allow its allies to transfer their F-16s to Kiev.<\/p>\n

Moscow has repeatedly warned that deliveries of more sophisticated weapons to Ukraine by the US and its allies could cross its \u2018red lines\u2019, leading to a major spike in the hostilities. Russia has said that the provision of arms, intelligence sharing, and training to Kiev\u2019s troops makes Western nations de facto parties to the conflict.<\/p>\n

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