07.12.2021, Moscow.
The Ukrainian authorities do not have a unified position; everything they say is contradictory streams of different minds, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on December 7, RIA Novosti reported.
According to Lavrov, the recent statements of the Ukrainian leadership cannot even be called ambivalent. “There are as many opinions as many people in the Ukrainian leadership, and each of them can change their opinion several times a day,” he described what is happening.
As an example, the Russian foreign minister cited the recent statement of the new Minister of Defense Aleksey Reznikov. At first, he said “that Ukraine should invite or has already invited the British, Canadians and Americans to the front line in Donbass,” and “two hours later he said that they would not do this.” The Russian foreign minister suggested that in this interval, “apparently his supervisors explained to him that he had already gone too far.”
According to Lavrov, all this shows that the minister is producing a stream of consciousness, as they say, when describing similar processes. Moreover, “there is not one stream of consciousness, there are streams of different minds, which are contradictory,” Lavrov said.
On December 6, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Aleksey Reznikov said that the United States, Canada and Britain should deploy troops on the front lines in case Russia launches an attack on Ukraine. However, he later said that the country could do without the armies of Western countries, as long as Ukraine was supplied with weapons.
At the same time, representatives of the United States and the EU threatened that if Russia tried to show any aggression against Ukraine, they would impose such sanctions that they would not be comparable to those of 2014 and would have an extremely harmful effect on the country’s economy.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
