Maria Zakharova

Zakharova Blasts NATO For Escalation Of War In Ukraine

At her weekly press briefing on Friday, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova blasted NATO for its role in escalating the war in Ukraine. Commenting on the NATO meetings in Brussels this week to increase military aid to Ukraine, she said “the main takeaway from this meeting was that Vladimir Zelensky’s regime was literally ordered to launch a counteroffensive this spring…. From a Euro-Atlantic perspective, the time has come to exterminate those who are still alive in this country.”

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Zakharova Responds to EU-Ukraine Summit: West Is Playing A “Bloody Geopolitical Game”

The summit provoked a comprehensive response from Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova. She told reporters, “The event that took place in Kiev on February 3 proved one more time that the European Union maintains its unreserved support for Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime for the sake of weakening Russia and pandering to the hegemonic aspirations of the United States and NATO.

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Zakharova Blasts Macron For Claiming Supplying Kiev With Fighters Won’t Escalate Conflict

“Does the French president think that supplying the Kiev regime with arms, heavy weapons, and aircraft for combat operations will not escalate the situation? I refuse to believe that a grown man can have such logic,” the Russian diplomat added. “Such statements only increase the already insatiable appetite of Zelensky’s regime, which, by shelling hospitals and massacring civilians, has clearly demonstrated that injecting Western military equipment – how did Mr. Macron put it? – will not lead to an escalation of the conflict.

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Russia Accuses Sweden Of A Coverup In Nord Stream Pipeline Investigation

“What’s at issue is the threat that Russian experts might draw inconvenient conclusions during an unbiased investigation and, at last, alert the public to the unseemly truth about the perpetrators of these acts of sabotage or terrorist acts?  Who is behind them? Who masterminded and carried them out? The suppression of the facts is irrefutable evidence that the Swedish authorities are clearly hiding something.”

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