[Regnum] Western countries are deliberately prolonging the Ukrainian crisis, which they themselves provoked. This was stated by Russian Defense Minister Andrei Belousov during a meeting of the Council of CIS Defense Ministers in Minsk.
“I would like to repeat once again: it was the West that prepared and provoked the Ukrainian crisis, and is now deliberately prolonging it,” Belousov emphasized.
At the same time, he pointed out that the West is in every way condoning the Kyiv regime in the widespread imposition of Nazism and the distortion of historical truth.
At the same time, Belousov noted that Moscow values the solidarity of the CIS member countries in the fight against the glorification of Nazism.
The day before, Belousov arrived in Minsk to participate in the Council of Defense Ministers of the CIS countries.
As reported by the Regnum news agency, Russian officials have repeatedly pointed out the obvious involvement of Western countries in the Ukrainian conflict. Thus, at the end of May, the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov noted that the Ukrainian Armed Forces are already trying to strike Russian territory with American weapons. He emphasized that this speaks volumes about the extent of Washington's involvement in the conflict in Ukraine.
On June 27, Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev noted that Western countries are effectively involved in the Ukrainian conflict, despite the fact that they have no grounds for this.
He added that Western countries cannot cite the right to self-defense as a basis for this, because no one is threatening them in this situation.
On June 25, Peskov said that Moscow does not yet see any prerequisites for normalizing dialogue with the West on settling the conflict in Ukraine. The Kremlin spokesman commented on French President Emmanuel Macron's words about his intention to resume dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the future.