Reuters July 12, 2023
The armed confrontation in Ukraine will continue until the West
gives up plans to dominate and defeat Moscow, Russian Foreign
Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with an Indonesian
newspaper published on Wednesday.
The goal of the US-led collective West is to strengthen its
global hegemony, Lavrov told the Kompas newspaper. Lavrov is due to
attend the East Asia Summit and ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta
this week, as is U.S. Secretary of State
Why doesnt the armed confrontation in Ukraine come to an end?
The answer is very simple it will continue until the West gives up
its plans to preserve its domination and overcome its obsessive
desire to inflict on Russia a strategic defeat at the hands of its
Kiev puppets, according to a transcript of the interview published
on Russias foreign ministry website.
For the time being, there are no signs of change in this
position.
Russia waged a full-scale invasion in Ukraine in February 2022,
calling it a special military operation to denazify its neighbour.
Kyiv and its allies call the war, now in its 17th month, an
aggression to grab land.
On Wednesday, Russia launched a wave of kamikaze drone attacks
on Kyiv for a second night in row and hours before President
Volodymyr Zelenskiy was due to meet NATO leaders at a summit in
Vilnius.
The West says it wants to help Ukraine win its conflict with
Russia, and Western powers have supplied large amounts of modern
arms and ammunition to Kyiv.
Lavrov also accused Kyiv of ignoring Indonesias peace plan and
instead promoting its own package of ultimatums.
Ukraine dismissed the Indonesian plan, a multi-point formula
which had included a call for the establishment of a demilitarised
zone, reiterating Kyivs position that Russia should withdraw its
troops from Ukraine.
Commenting on the internal strife in Myanmar since a military
coup in 2021, Lavrov urged the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations (ASEAN) to resolve issues with close cooperation with the
junta and without interfering in Myanmars domestic affairs.
ASEAN foreign ministers meeting on Tuesday were expected to
address the growing violence in Myanmar. The regional bloc has
barred the junta from its summits for failing to implement an
agreed peace plan.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne and Ananda
Teresia in Jakarta; Editing by Simon Cameron-Moore)
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