Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday in an interview broadcast by the British BBC channel that the country had not invaded Ukraine and accused Western countries of spreading false news.
“We did not invade Ukraine. We declared a special military operation because we had absolutely no other way for the West to understand that it was a crime to include Ukraine in NATO,” the Chancellor said.
Since the war in Eastern Europe began on February 24, Kyiv estimates more than 4,000 civilians, 10,000 Ukrainian soldiers and 30,000 Russian soldiers have died.
In a rare interview with the international media, Lavrov insisted that in Moscow’s official version, a de-Nazification campaign was being waged in Ukraine.
When asked if fighting the Nazis “implies such cases as in the town of Yahidna, where 360 people, including 74 children and five with disabilities, were forced by the Russian armed forces to stay in the basement of a school for 28 days without toilets for 28 days without water” and “where ten old people died” Lavrov made accusations.
“It’s a shame, but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (Michelle Bachelet) and the UN Secretary-General (António Guterres) and many UN representatives, are under pressure from the West and in many cases used to amplify ‘fake news’,” he replied. .
source: Noticias
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