Nato interfering with political settlement in Ukraine, Russia claims

Nato interfering with political settlement in Ukraine

Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov has had some stern words to say about the west’s involvement in Ukraine, Qazet.az reports according to China’s official Xinhua news agency.

The transcript from the interview was published on the Russian foreign ministry’s website early Saturday morning.

Among a string of assertions, the foreign minister accused the United States and Nato countries of using Ukraine as “one of the tools to contain Russia” while maintaining that prior to Russia’s invasion on 24 February they were “forcing Kyiv to make an artificial, false choice: either with the West or with Moscow.”

It was these conditions that gave Russia “no other choice" but to recognise the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics and launch a special military operation to demilitarise and denazify Ukraine, Lavrov continued.