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In an interview with Sputnik on Thursday, Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov first and foremost focused on issues related to the ongoing Russian special military operation in Ukraine, also giving his thoughts on the Nord Stream gas pipeline attacks, and the Russian-Chinese relations.
The top Russian diplomat told Sputnik that the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine shows signs of growing.
"The fact that the West cannot calm down - and, as in the infamous fairy tales, with every step it gets stuck even more in the swamp - this plays an important role in the course of the [Russian special military] operation. This escalation, you are absolutely right, is snowballing,” Sergey Lavrov said.
"If now we are seeking to move the artillery of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to a distance that will not pose a threat to our territories, then the more long-range weapons are supplied to the Kiev regime, the further they will need to be moved away from Russian territory," Lavrov told Sputnik.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has repeatedly called for supplies of long-range missiles to Ukraine to counter Russian forces, as part of the West’s military aid to Kiev. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned on Monday that deliveries of long-range missiles to Ukraine will “directly increase the level of escalation”.
On NATO’s Role in Ukraine Conflict
"The whole of NATO is fighting against us, and all those allegations and incantations that ‘we are not fighting, but only arming’ - this is ridiculous.”
Since the start of Russia's special military operation in February 2022, the West has pumped the Kiev regime with miliary and financial aid worth billions of dollars.
On US’ Possible Involvement in Nord Stream Attack
Lavrov said that the words of US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs Victoria Nuland about the terrorist attacks at Nord Stream pipelines demonstrate that Washington was involved in them.
"And this is not only the direct participation of the United States in the explosions of the Nord Streams. Now Mrs. Nuland has, in fact, turned herself in,” he pointed out.
Last week, the US Under Secretary of State said that "the [US] administration is very gratified to know that Nord Stream 2" would not be operating.
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Who had more reasons to blow up pipelines?
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