Foreign Minister Lavrov: “We did not attack Ukraine”

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov still claims that Russia did not invade Ukraine. British Broadcasting Corporation BBC interviewed Lavrov on Thursday.

“We did not attack Ukraine, but we declared a special military operation because we had no other way to explain to the West that pulling Ukraine into NATO is criminal,” Lavrov says.

Lavrov has repeated the same claims since the beginning of the Russian invasion. However, Russia’s actions have been defined as an attack and a violation of international law. In addition, the International Criminal Court is investigating Russian war crimes in Ukraine.

Russia claims to be fighting Nazis in Ukraine.

BBC: n supplier Steve Rosenberg presented Lavrov with a UN report on the city of Jahidne, where Russian soldiers are said to have kept 360 civilians in the basement for 28 days. Civilians, including 74 children, were in the basement of a local school without running water and toilets. 10 people died. The reporter asked if Lavrov thought this was a fight against the Nazis.

“Unfortunately, it is a shame, but international diplomats, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Secretary-General and other UN representatives are under pressure from the West. Very often they have been used to spread false news in the West, ”Lavrov replied.

The reporter therefore asks whether Russia is spotless.

“Russia is not spotless. Russia is what it is. And we are not ashamed to show what we are. ”