Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that it was NATO experiments and the deafening silence of the Western public that caused the humanitarian and political catastrophe in Europe.
“Where were all the countries and their public for 8 years when the war was going on, and how did they condemn the murder of at least 13 thousand people over these years? Russia didn’t start the war, it ends it,” Zakharova wrote in her Telegram channel.
The diplomat noted that it was Russia that all these years called on the world community to rebuff the systematic destruction of the population of Donbass. These are millions of people who lost loved ones every day and lived in basements, hiding from shelling, she added.
“None of those who are now screaming in the “civilized countries” has ever come out to a single rally in support of the annihilated population of Donetsk and Lugansk, demanding to stop this bloodshed. The world was silent. The obedient silence of the world community and ignorance of the bloody catastrophe that was the result of the anti-constitutional coup in Ukraine in 2014, carried out with the direct participation of the United States, the EU, Germany, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and other NATO countries, only encouraged the Kyiv regime to continue the destruction of its own population”, – Zakharova emphasized.
The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry added that it was the experiments of the North Atlantic Alliance and the deafening silence of the Western public that caused the humanitarian and political catastrophe in Europe. This had to end, since the West refused to conduct any negotiations and welcomed the aggressive statements and direct threats of the Kiev puppets against Russia, Zakharova concluded.