Russian Diplomats Criticises EU for Arms Supply to Kyiv
New Delhi: Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko warned European Union Ambassador to Moscow Markus Ederer on Tuesday that the bloc’s ongoing arms supplies to Kyiv were unacceptable.
“Russia stressed as unacceptable the EU’s ongoing weapons supplies to Ukrainian forces. Russia stressed that the weapons are being used for attacks on civilian infrastructure in Donbas localities leaving civilians and children dead,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
Moscow also informed the EU envoy of its “opinions on the developments in Ukraine and in the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics amid the special military operation”, the ministry added.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Ederer and expressed a resolute protest over the ban on the transit of certain goods to the Kaliningrad Region, Russia’s Baltic Sea exclave.
The Experts, however on the relations of Russia with the EU said that – The Moscow government has to change its ways to build strategic relations with the European countries as its political relations have been changed with many countries after invading Ukraine.
On 24 February 2022, Russia invaded Ukraine in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War that began in 2014. The invasion caused Europe’s fastest-growing refugee crisis since World War II, with more than 7.5 million Ukrainians fleeing the country and a third of the population displaced.
Russian President Vladimir Putin said that Moscow had no plans to occupy Ukrainian territories, and the goal was to demilitarize and denazify the country. Vladimir Putin said that in response to a request by the heads of the Donbas republics he had made a decision to carry out a special military operation.
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