NATO, whom French President Emmanuel Macron at one time called ‘brain dead’, has gone too far, judging from the US-led Western bloc’s recent policies on Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.
Addressing a meeting of the United Russia party’s commission at an international forum on environmental policies and sustainable development, Russia’s top diplomat said: "Macron at one time, diagnosed the North Atlantic alliance as being `brain dead.’ Judging from how the bloc has been grooming Kiev’s neo-Nazi regime, the disease has deteriorated far too much already."
"As you know, a summit of the so-called European Political Community was convened yesterday at the initiative of President Macron, and after the meeting the EU’s diplomacy chief [Josep] Borrell proudly declared that a security structure has been evolving without Russia’s involvement. So, they have been toeing Kiev’s line while encouraging the insane fantasies of those who still have power there," the Russian foreign minister said.
According to Lavrov, the United States and its allies are thus responsible for the "dangerous spike in global tensions," since they have been ratcheting up weapons supplies to the regime of Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky, "despite his overt nuclear ambitions."
Russian diplomat slams Kiev's reaction to Crimean Bridge incident
Ukraine’s reaction to an incident on the Crimean Bridge highlights the terrorist nature of the Kiev regime, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote on Telegram on Saturday.
"The Kiev regime’s reaction the destruction of civilian infrastructure highlights its terrorist nature," she pointed out, commenting on remarks from Kiev officials.
Moscow: Kiev Regime's Reaction To Destruction of Civilian Infrastructure Proves its Terrorist Nature
A truck was blown up on the motorway section of the Crimean Bridge, causing seven fuel tanks of a train travelling to the peninsula to go up in flames, the National Anti-Terrorist Committee said on Saturday. The cause of the explosion is now being investigated.
The Kiev regime's reaction to destruction of civilian infrastructure proves its terrorist nature, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova wrote in her Telegram account on Saturday, after an explosion rattled the Crimean bridge.
An adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's office, Mykhailo Podolyak, went on Twitter shortly after the emergency on the Crimean Bridge to write that this was just "the beginning".
The official page of Ukraine's Ministry of Defense also responded to the incident on what it referred to as a "notorious symbol of (Russian) power".
Traffic and rail services were suspended on the Crimean Bridge early on Saturday after a truck was blown up on the on the motorway section. No injuries have been reported yet, according to the regional authorities.
"Today, at 6:07am, a truck was blown up on the motorway section of the Crimean Bridge from the Taman Peninsula, which caused seven fuel tanks of a train travelling to the Crimean peninsula to go up in flames. Two motorway sections of the bridge have partially collapsed. The arch over the land part of the bridge has not been damaged," the National Anti-Terrorist Committee stated, adding that the cause of the explosion was being investigated.
All trains which were scheduled to leave for Crimea in the near future, have been temporarily suspended because of the incident on the Crimean Bridge, state-owned transport company Russian Railways said on Saturday on Telegram. Meanwhile, the Kerch Strait ferry line, which connects the Crimean peninsula to Russia's Krasnodar region, has resumed operations, the Russian Transport Ministry told Sputnik. There is no timescale as yet of how long it will take to restore the Crimean Bridge, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Sputnik on Saturday.
Almost 12 miles long, the Crimean Bridge - the longest in Europe - was built to connect the Taman peninsula with the Kerch peninsula after Crimea rejoined Russia. In a March 2014 referendum, nearly 97 percent of voters supported the move to rejoin the country, with Moscow repeatedly stating that the decision made by the Crimean people was conducted in full compliance with international law and the UN Charter.
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