Russian minister calls Kremlin drone attacks ‘hostile act’, promises response with ‘concrete measures’

2023-05-06 11:36:58

Sergey Lavrov, who heads Russia’s foreign affairs ministry, stressed that the war will not be interrupted and accused the United States of participating in the attack against the Kremlin.

EFE/ Maxim Shipenkov – 02/04/2018Russian foreign minister accused Ukraine of not cooperating with the talks with an eye on possible NATO interference

Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, accused last Friday, the 5th, the United States of having participated in the drone attacks carried out against the Kremlin and promised “concrete measures” as a form of response and measure of force by the Russians. In a statement to the press after the meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the head of the portfolio that coordinates international policy called the act carried out against the seat of Russian power a “hostile act”. “It is quite clear that the Kiev terrorists could not have committed it without the knowledge of its owners. [em referência aos Estados Unidos]. We will respond with concrete actions”, promised the Chancellor. Lavrov also stressed that Moscow “has not given up on solving the problems caused by the actions of the United States and its supplies of arms to Ukraine to confront Russia” and that, therefore, it will not interrupt the “military operation” on Ukrainian soil. “Everyone understands the geopolitical nature of what is happening, and everyone understands that without solving the main geopolitical problem, which is the West’s desire to maintain its hegemony and dictate its will to everyone, it is impossible to resolve any crisis, whether in Ukraine or in Ukraine. other parts of the world”, he concluded.

Last Wednesday, 3, the Russian security system prevented drones from carrying out an attack on the Kremlin and, after the episode, Moscow accused the government of Volodymyr Zelensky, president of Ukraine, of executing in the act and the White House of participation in the offensive. After the accusation that the action would be a “terrorist act”, the Investigative Committee of Russia opened a judicial process as a result of the drone attack. “The Main Department of the Investigation Committee of the Russia filed a lawsuit […] regarding an attempted attack on the Russian President’s residence in the Kremlin,” the agency said in a statement. The president of Ukraine, however, granted an interview in Finland after meeting with state leaders from Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland and denied any participation in the alleged assassination attempt on Vladimir Putin. “We don’t attack Putin or Moscow, we just fight on our territory, we defend our towns and cities.” Finally, the Russian presidency also said that the government “reserves the right to take retaliatory measures where and when it deems appropriate”. Senior Russian officials, including Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev, have called on Putin to act decisively through the use of weapons capable of “destroying” the Kiev authorities or leading to the “physical elimination” of Zelensky.