18.02.2022, Moscow.
Militants who were killed and portrayed as civilians allegedly tortured by Serbs had become the reason for NATO forces to bomb Yugoslavia in 1999, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on February 18 in an interview with RT.
The OSCE mission in Kosovo was then led by Willian Walker, a US diplomat, said Lavrov. The minister recalled that it was a period of confrontations.
“And at one fine moment, he [Walker] gathered journalists and before TV cameras announced that ‘we are in the village of Račak, where 30 civilians were found dead after being tortured by Serbs, and that this is genocide,” recalled Lavrov.
Walker alone decided to withdraw the OSCE mission from Kosovo, although he did not have the right to do so, explained the minister. According to Lavrov, this was the “trigger” for NATO forces to start bombing.
“Then, a special group was formed to investigate this incident, and it clearly established that they were not civilians, that they were militants, who were killed in battle and then dressed in civilian clothes,” said Lavrov.
On February 17, Ukraine announced the alleged shelling of a kindergarten in the village of Luganskaya by the People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR). There are photos of the building with a visible hole in the wall. Experts argue that the LPR People’s Militia units could not do this, since the straight distance to the contact line is eight kilometers, and other buildings stand in the way. Experts also point out that the glass in the damaged kindergarten is intact, and there are no fragments around, which would be impossible if the shelling hit the target.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
