Lavrov accuses NATO of wanting to 'fight' in Ukraine as 'the Alliance has shown that it does not want to stop hostilities'

Lavrov accuses NATO of wanting to 'fight' in Ukraine as 'the Alliance has shown that it does not want to stop hostilities'

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, he accused NATO of wanting to "fight" in Ukraine as the Alliance has shown that it does not want to stop hostilities. During his official visit to Minsk, Belarus, Lavrov stressed that “through the mouth” of NATO Secretary General Jens Stolteberg, Moscow knows that Ukraine's allies “are against the 'freezing', as they say, of the conflict in Ukraine”.
“So they want to fight. Well, let's let them fight. We are ready for this"he continued Lavrov, who met with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and counterparts from the countries that make up the Collective Security Treaty Organization.

Lavrov, quoted by the Interfax agency, he assured that Russia has known NATO's objectives in Ukraine for "a long time" and is now trying to put them into practice.

“At the same time they declare that they are not waging a war against Russia”, but “They recognize that if they had not supplied weapons to the Kiev regime, everything would have ended,” he said. “This is a de facto recognition that they are a direct participant in the declared hybrid war against Russia.”

An "American village" on the outskirts of Moscow, to host Western Putin fans eager to move to Russia. It is the new project that the regime is working on and which has been presented in recent days in Izvestija, the newspaper controlled by Gazprom and the Kremlin's megaphone. “Tens of thousands of citizens of countries hostile to us in Europe, NATO and the United States are about to move to Russia and are ready to take all necessary measures. They don't have Russian origins but they think that Russia is an ark of tranquility and decency, where they can live and raise their children according to the most traditional human values."

The announcement came from Yevgeny Primakov – grandson of the same name of the man who in the Yeltsin years was Foreign Minister and head of government, standard bearer of Russia's greater international prominence and then an influential advisor to Putin – who today directs the government agency Rossotrudnichestvo.

Formally dedicated to "international humanitarian cooperation" and in particular "to compatriots living abroad", the agency is actually the direct heir of what was Voks in the USSR, the famous "Soviet Association for cultural ties with the abroad".
The coordination of the many “Society of friendship with the USSR” spread in the West and the creation of Soviet propaganda bulletins to be distributed everywhere in the world. But also and above all the care - between contacts, benefits, hospitality and daily vigilance - of the Western intellectuals who were invited to visit the "homeland of socialism": those "political pilgrims", in Paul Hollander's definition, who in good or bad faith they lent name and credibility to the spread of Soviet falsehoods behind the Iron Curtain.

Obsessed by the dream of rebuilding the lost power, Putin therefore returns to using the tools that belonged to the USSR. Not only those of political repression and military oppression, but also those which yesterday relied on the most classic propaganda and which today integrate and broaden the "hybrid war" strategy already theorized by Valerij Gerasimov, in command of the Russian invasion in Ukraine since January .