“Don’t threaten with nuclear weapons”
Lavrov does not see Russia at war with NATO
4/30/2022 1:52 am
Earlier this week, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov warned of the danger of a third world war. Now he claims it is NATO that sees itself at war with Russia. The weapons delivered from the West should be targeted when they reach Ukrainian soil.
According to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Russia does not see itself at war with NATO. Rather, NATO believes it is at war with Russia, Lavrov said in an interview with the Arabic-language broadcaster Al-Arabiya, according to the Russian agencies Ria and TASS. Furthermore, Russia is not threatening nuclear weapons, Western media exaggerated on this subject. “We’re not “playing” with a nuclear war,” Lavrov said.
On Monday Lavrov had yet in an interview on Russian television before a “real danger” of a third world war warned. At the end of February, Russia had put deterrent weapons on alert, which was understood worldwide as a threat to the nuclear arsenal.
In an interview with Al-Arabiya published on Friday, Lavrov repeated that the “special operation,” which the Russian officials call a “special operation,” will end when all goals have been achieved. This is to protect the civilian population in eastern Ukraine and to ensure “that there are no threats from the territory of Ukraine for this population and for Russia. That’s all”. In the eastern Ukrainian regions of Donetsk and Luhansk, pro-Russian separatists had proclaimed people’s republics, which Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin recognized as independent shortly before the start of the war in Ukraine.
The Russian foreign minister also said that Russia knows the routes through which the West intends to deliver arms to Ukraine. According to him, the delivered weapons should become the target of the “special operation” “as soon as they reach the territory of Ukraine”.