Moscow-Sana
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the actions of Western countries supporting the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine as "criminal activities".
"Russia did not invade Ukraine, but launched its own military operation when it had no other way to explain to the West that it was carrying out criminal activities by dragging Ukraine into NATO and sponsoring the neo-Nazi regime," Lavrov told the BBC.
"The Ukrainian regime is now attacking with Western weapons the peaceful population and cities, just as the putschists did when they came to power in Kyiv in 2014, when they bombed the center of Lugansk from planes and burned 50 people in Odessa," Lavrov noted.
In a related context, Lavrov expressed his confidence in the independence of the judiciary in the Donetsk People's Republic and the sentencing of British mercenaries convicted of war crimes in Donetsk.
Lavrov called on London, which is trying to find out the fate of its mercenaries, not to resort in this matter to Moscow, but to Donetsk.
Last Thursday, 3 foreign mercenaries who were captured in Mariupol were sentenced to death in Donetsk. They are two Britons and a Moroccan. According to the laws of Donetsk, the verdict can be appealed within a month.
On the other hand, Lavrov reiterated that there is no winner in a nuclear war, stressing the need to never unleash it.
He noted that Moscow is the main initiator of the statements made at the Russia-US summits on behalf of the leaders of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council on nuclear threats.
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