Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says, while in Mozambique, that the comments of the UK Foreign Minister incite Kiev to commit acts of terrorism against Russia.
The statement made by the UK Foreign Secretary James Cleverly can be considered, by Moscow, to be a direct incitement of Ukraine to attack Russia.
“Yesterday, or the day before yesterday, I think, the UK foreign secretary said on TV and on social media that the UK does not encourage strikes on Russian territory, but the Ukrainian authorities, the Ukrainian armed forces know better how they want to ensure their territorial integrity. [This is] direct incitement to what the Kiev terrorists are doing,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said while at a press conference in Mozambique.
Cleverly, earlier, had deflected a question about Kiev’s involvement in the attack on Moscow on Tuesday and rather stated that Ukraine has the right to “project force beyond its borders to undermine Russia’s ability to project force into Ukraine itself.”
Furthermore, responding to US Ambassador to Pretoria Reuben Brigety, who alleged that South Africa had provided Russia with weapons, Lavrov said he should mind his own business.
Asked to comment on allegations by the US diplomat that the Lady R, a cargo ship, was transporting weapons from South Africa to Russia, Lavrov said, “South Africa is a sovereign nation. Russia is a sovereign nation, too. And we build our relations in full compliance with the norms and principles of international law that exist in this sphere.”
“If a side has any questions in any domain of our cooperation, we tackle them on a bilateral basis,” Russia’s top diplomat added.
“If an American or any other foreign ambassador from across the ocean suspects something, he or she had better mind their own business,” Lavrov said. Referring to depleted uranium shells, he said that Russia “never violates international norms, unlike our Western counterparts who do so, while declaring their neutrality on the developments in Ukraine, as they pump that country with large amounts of the latest long-range and generally unsafe weapons, including for those who use them.”
The West has been sending weapons to the Kiev regime, “whose officials have voiced threats to kill all Russians,” Lavrov stressed. “Therefore, US ambassadors had better take care of their own image in the eyes of the foreign public,” he concluded.
Source: Almayadeen
