Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov made a tough statement during his official visit to the Kyrgyz Republic on June 29, asserting that the West will never achieve the goal of causing a "strategic failure" to Russia, despite all efforts to use Ukraine as a "weapon" against Moscow.
Speaking at a meeting with his counterpart Kyrgy latan, Jeenbek Kulubaev, Secretary of State Lavrov, emphasized: We are witnessing an unprecedented confrontation between Russia and the collective West, which has decided to once again launch a war against us. They sought to launch a strategic defeat against Russia, and used Ukraine as a weapons of attack.
According to Mr. Lavrov, both NATO and the European Union (EU) are turning the conflict in Ukraine into a tool to face Russia. However, he asserted that these efforts "had failed historically and will continue to fail again".
Mr. Lavrov also said that many Western politicians are starting to realize the hopelessness of the current "hawl" strategy, although not specifying the name. In recent times, Moscow has repeatedly warned the West about the consequences of continuing to provide military aid and expand NATO close to the Russian border.
Tensions continued to increase after the EU summit last week in Brussels, when most member states supported increasing military aid and promoting Ukraine's EU entry negotiations. However, Hungary has denied the joint statement and blocked the negotiations, pointing to a division within the EU.
Initially, Russia was neutral on Ukraine's intention to join the EU, considering it a "soviet right", as long as the EU played the role of an economic bloc. But now, with the EU increasing its military spending and intervening more deeply in the Ukrainian crisis, Moscow has changed its stance.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, now deputy head of the National Security Council, said the EU is now no less threatening than NATO. He also criticized the EU's plan to increase defense spending to 5% of GDP, calling it an escalation to deal with the so-called "long-term threat from Russia".
Russia has repeatedly denied the accusation of intending to attack Western countries, calling it a "road of waiting" set up to allow the Western government to "pull out people's pockets to finance the arms race".
President Vladimir Putin has said that NATO is inflating threats to extort money from citizens of member countries.
