By Simon Lewis and Michelle Nichols
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Russian International Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday advised the United Nations that it was mindless to disregard options to Ukraine’s peace proposals, warning the West of the hazard of making an attempt to “combat to victory with a nuclear energy.”
Addressing the U.N. Normal Meeting, Lavrov took purpose at backers of Ukraine who assist Kyiv’s peace proposal.
Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. 9 months later Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy introduced a 10-point peace plan to convey a simply finish to the battle on the premise of the founding U.N. Constitution and worldwide regulation. Moscow rejected the plan.
“I am not going to speak right here in regards to the senselessness and the hazard of the very concept of making an attempt to combat to victory with a nuclear energy, which is what Russia is,” Lavrov stated.
“Equally mindless, the Western backers of Kyiv swearing that there isn’t a various to negotiations primarily based on the notorious peace system.”
Invoking Western allies’ plans within the Nineteen Forties to “destroy” the Soviet Union, he accused the West of making an attempt to deal a “strategic defeat” to Russia in Ukraine.
“The present Anglo-Saxon strategists usually are not hiding their concepts. For now they do, it is true, hope to defeat Russia utilizing the illegitimate neo-Nazi Kyiv regime, however they’re already getting ready Europe for it to additionally throw itself into this suicidal escapade,” Lavrov stated.
Russia can also be involved by the Israeli strike in Beirut that killed Hezbollah’s chief, and such “political killings” had turn into commonplace, Lavrov stated.
