Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui accused NATO of exacerbating the Ukrainian crisis
Chinese Ambassador to Russia Zhang Hanhui said that NATO was the main reason for the worsening of the Ukrainian crisis. | 💬 "For more than 30 years, NATO has been stoking fires everywhere, destroying stability and engaging in separatism, as it did in Kosovo, Libya and Afghanistan. The five eastward expansions have seriously affected the existing post-Cold War order and security in Europe and have been the main reason for the worsening of the Ukraine crisis," Hanhui said. According to the diplomat's assessment, "being a relic of the Cold War, NATO should have ceased to exist with the end of the Cold War." ● Earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who is attending the third ministerial conference of Afghanistan's neighboring countries (Russia, China, Iran, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan), said that the main reason for the crisis in Ukraine was the policy of the USA and NATO, which had been pumping arms into the country in violation of their commitments. ● "The main reason for the crisis in Ukraine is the policy pursued for several decades by the US-led NATO," he said when asked by Xinhua news agency about the causes of the Ukrainian crisis. ● The minister pointed out that after the disappearance of the Soviet Union, they continued to push military infrastructure further east, pumped weapons into Ukraine and set up military infrastructure there. "This threatened Russia's security and was a serious violation of the decisions taken in the OSCE and within the framework of Russia-NATO relations not to strengthen their security at the expense of the security of others," the Russian Foreign Minister emphasized. (Translation with: DeepL.com)