Ukraine, Lavrov: “Use? Beyond the red line”. Ready to hit the west

The war between Moscow and the West can no longer be classified as “hybrid” and is now “almost real”. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, at a press conference after talks with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor, threatens the West and warns that the United States has already crossed the “red line”. According to the head of Russian diplomacy, speaking of what is happening in Ukraine, “the West has been preparing itself against Russia for a long time, trying to destroy everything that is Russian, from language to culture, which has been in Ukraine for centuries, and banning people from speaking their native language.”

“By threatening other countries not to work with Russia, the United States is already crossing all red lines,” Lavrov said. “The pressure that the United States, and also the British, are putting on African countries, but also on Asian and Latin American countries, constantly and publicly declaring that those who collaborate with Russia will regret it crosses all red lines” , he added. “They threaten great States that are millenary civilizations”, he concluded.

Meanwhile, in Europe, conflict is raging over the possible deployment of Leopard 2 tanks, considered essential by Kiev to continue the war, but in which Germany is holding back. “We need tanks, not 10-20, but several hundred,” said the head of the Cabinet of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak on his Telegram channel, as the debate over the supply of tanks continues. While Poland warns Berlin that it will remain isolated internationally, the Germans insist it is important that Germany not take a “hasty” step that it might later regret, lest a hasty decision be taken. said German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit. “These are difficult questions, of life and death”, “we must ask ourselves what this means for the defense of our country”, added the spokesman of the chancellor, Olaf Scholz.