Islamabad (TDI): Russia has accused the US and the European Union (EU) of orchestrating the 2014 coup in Kyiv, which it claims fueled the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.
Highlighting alleged human rights violations against ethnic Russians and the use of Ukraine as NATO stronghold, Russian Ambassador to Pakistan, Albert P. Khorev, condemned Western nations for escalating tensions through military aid and intelligence support to Kyiv.
He reiterated its commitment to a political settlement, while emphasizing Russian stance on addressing the root causes of the crisis, including NATO expansion and Russopohobic policies.
He said that US and the EU wanted to destroy a single historical, economic and spiritual space shared by Ukraine and Russia.
Since 2014, the totalitarian regime in Kiev has systematically violated human rights, including those of ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking residents of Ukraine, planted Russophobia, massively falsified history by glorifying Nazi war criminals of the Great Patriotic War period, and carried out aggression against civilians in Donbass, he said.
According to the Western strategy, Ukraine is expected to join NATO, and the alliance is conducting a large-scale military deployment on its territory, the ambassador added.
He said that the country has been turned into a bridgehead to fight against Russia and has become a serious threat to Russia’s security.
Today, Kiev is conducting its military operations against Russia almost entirely at the expense of Western financial and military support, the envoy said.
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Since the beginning of the Special Military Operation, the total Western aid to Ukraine has amounted to more than 350 billion US dollars, he maintained.
The Russian ambassador further said that supplies of weapons and military equipment to Ukraine are growing. Their nomenclature is constantly expanding.
“The Kiev regime is being equipped with increasingly destructive and lethal systems, including inhumane weapons (cluster munitions, depleted uranium shells) and various types of missiles. Washington has announced the supply of banned anti-personnel mines for the needs of the Ukrainian armed forces.”
He said that despite the fact that sensible elites in unfriendly countries are increasingly realizing the futility of financial injections into Ukraine and its inability to win on the battlefield, the U.S. and its satellites continue to contribute in every possible way to the further escalation of the conflict.
They actively invest in the training of the Ukrainian military, assist in the recruitment of foreign mercenaries who flock to Ukraine from various “hot spots” around the world, and regularly exchange intelligence, including information from satellites and reconnaissance aircraft of NATO countries, the envoy said.
“In November 2024, Kiev received permission to use Western long-range weapons (ATACMS, SCALP and Storm Shadow) to attack internationally recognized Russian territory.”
Amendments to Russia’s Nuclear Doctrine
Khorev said that the Russian President’s Decree of November 19 this year amended Russia’s nuclear doctrine to expand the list of military threats to be neutralized by “means of nuclear deterrence.”
In response to the use of Western long-range weapons, the Russian armed forces launched a combined strike on one of the largest sites of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, the Yuzhmash facility, on November 21 this year, he added.
The envoy said that the Oreshnik ballistic missile in its non-nuclear hypersonic configuration was successfully tested under combat conditions.
“Targets for engagement in further tests of our latest missile systems will be determined depending on the threats to Russia’s security. These targets may include the military infrastructure of those states that allow their weapons to be used to attack our country.”
As President Putin said, “It was not Russia, but the United States that destroyed the international security system. We have always preferred to settle all disputes by peaceful means. But we are also ready for any scenarios that may arise,” he added
Khorev said that Russia has never given up on a political and diplomatic solution to the Ukrainian crisis, as it has repeatedly stated.
In a speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented concrete proposals for a final settlement of the conflict, the diplomat said.
“Their key points include the withdrawal of Ukrainian armed formations from the new Russian regions, i.e. the Donetsk People’s Republic, the Luhansk People’s Republic, Zaporozhye and Kherson; the recognition of the new territorial realities; Kiev’s refusal to join NATO; the lifting of all Western sanctions against Russia; and the guarantee of full rights for Russian-speaking citizens of Ukraine.”
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In essence, what is being proposed is not a truce or ceasefire, as the West might prefer, to allow the Kiev regime to recover, rearm and prepare for a new offensive, nor a freeze on the conflict, but a definitive end to it, he said.
The negotiating process should culminate in peace in Europe, a new system of regional security, and non-confrontational relations between Russia and NATO, Khorev maintained.
“However, both Kiev and the West continue to think in terms of war. The Russian proposal for a political and diplomatic settlement of the conflict was met with an invasion of the Kursk region by the Ukrainian armed forces. They are acting like the most brutal and despicable terrorists, shooting civilians, looting Russian villages, attacking journalists and threatening nuclear facilities.”
He said that the Kiev regime is carrying out terrorist attacks against civilian and social facilities in Russia, resulting in deaths and injuries.
He added that the failure of Western countries and international organizations to condemn these unlawful actions contributes to their further expansion.
Khorev said that the media front was and remains one of the main fronts in the aggressive anti-Russian campaign of the “collective West”.
Zelensky’s calls to “test the latest weapons in Ukraine” also refer to information warfare, he added.
“The arsenal of such means has no legal or moral limits. The Kiev regime continues to test the “limits of what is allowed” by its Western handlers and does not encounter a hint of condemnation of its openly terrorist methods either from the capitals of “advanced democracies” or from the countless human rights structures and mechanisms controlled by the West.”
He said that all sources of information inconvenient to the ruling Ukrainian leadership and not suppressed by repression – bans and blockades – are subjected to targeted measures, including arbitrary arrests, imprisonment on absurd charges, and physical violence, including murder.
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Such patronage of the Kiev regime has been nurtured by the West for years, long before 2022, Khorev added.
He said that the current authorities in Kiev openly brag that they are conducting a real hunt for dissidents.
“They make no secret of the fact that they are the perpetrators of the planned brutal murders of Russian journalists and publicists – Daria Dugina, Oleg Klokov, Maxim Fomin (aka Vladlen Tatarsky), Rostislav Zhuravlev, Boris Maksudov, Semyon Eremin, Valery Kozhin, Nikita Tsitsaga and Yulia Kuznetsova.”
He said that the West is trying to preserve its image as a “model democracy” by silencing the crimes of its accused in Ukraine.
It is using the powerful resources of the mainstream media, doing everything to paralyze the activity of multilateral human rights bodies, blocking sources of undesirable information, the envoy added.
“As a result, many people in England, the United States, the EU and, unfortunately, Pakistan, have never heard of the journalists who died at the hands of the Ukrainian Nazis.”
Khorev said that institutions such as UNESCO, the OSCE and the Council of Europe have a statutory duty to protect human rights in general and the safety of journalists in particular.
In recent years, they have demonstrated their complete lack of scruples and incompetence, he added.
Their silence and inaction and, in fact, their condoning of the criminal regime in Kyiv is resulting in new human casualties, the envoy maintained.
“Thus, the Council of Europe completely ignored the crimes of the Kiev regime against Russian journalists and the NATO war crimes committed in Yugoslavia, Iraq, Libya and Syria, and in 2023 it established the so-called Register of Damage for Ukraine.”
This is another manifestation of the double standards of the Western countries. We emphasize that Russia will consider the activities and decisions of this “Register” as legally null and void, and any state’s accession to it will be considered a hostile act against our country, he added.
Khorev said that the emerging multipolar world cannot rely on a one-sided, Western-centered media landscape.
The current unsightly situation can only be changed through joint efforts, by countering truthful and objective information with their manipulative tactics and policies of creating impossible working conditions for “disloyal” media, he added.
“Fortunately, the number of people in the world who are tired of such actions is inevitably growing, which in practice leads to the emergence of new media associations ready to create an objective, independent news agenda, an alternative to the discredited “mainstream”. Against this background, we can note the strengthening of media cooperation within the BRICS association. “
He said that the Kazan Summit Declaration of the BRICS Leaders expressed serious concern about the growing spread of misinformation and desinformation.
The document emphasized the importance of ensuring “the integrity of information and its free flow, as well as open access to reliable and factual information, including freedom of opinion and expression”.
It is obvious to us that in the conditions of intensified information exchange it is more important than ever to expand and strengthen cooperation between our media and to consolidate efforts to create a new information environment that meets the interests of the world majority, Khorev maintained.
“The Ukrainian example clearly shows what can happen to almost any country that happens to be on the next front line of geopolitical pressure. In fact, what is being tested now is the strength of the global information space itself and its ability to resist attempts to manipulate the truth.”
The Bürgenstock Format and the Peace Formula
Khorev said that today, Kiev and the Western countries continue to promote Zelensky’s so-called “peace formula”, which has nothing to do with peace, by organizing events of the Bürgenstock format.
“The “formula” is essentially a set of unrealizable demands to achieve Russia’s capitulation. This means the withdrawal of Russian troops from the territory of Donbass, Crimea, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions, payment of reparations and confession of guilt in international tribunals.”
By imposing their approaches, Ukraine and its overseas masters are trying to minimize the importance of other countries’ peace proposals and monopolize the right to present them, he said.
The envoy further said that the ultimate goal of the “Bürgenstock” meetings is to involve the Global South in an anti-Russian coalition.
To this end, in September-October this year they forced meetings of the so-called “working groups” on nine out of ten points of the “formula”, he said.
“According to their idea, these meetings should pave the way for a second “peace summit”. It is planned to invite Russia to this event only for the purpose of issuing a collective ultimatum to us, allegedly on behalf of the world majority. This is unacceptable to us. We will not participate in this farce, even if we receive an invitation.”
The West and its puppets in Kiev are trying in vain to hide their own aggressive aspirations under the guise of “formulas,” “formats,” and “peaceful summits” that lead to nothing, Khorev said.
“Achieving peace is not part of their plans. They have a fantasy of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Russia. It will never happen. This is a way to nowhere. It is necessary to look realistically at the situation “on the ground” and be aware of what is happening.”
It is impossible to achieve a just settlement without taking into account Russia and its interests, the Russian envoy said.
Mediation Initiatives
Khorev said that Russia highly appreciates the efforts of the countries of the Global South to find a non-military solution to the conflict.
He added that China, Brazil and a number of African States have already demonstrated a deep understanding of the causes of the Ukrainian conflict, its geopolitical significance and the need to take Russia’s interests into account.
There are many rational provisions in their proposals that are supported by Moscow, he added.
The envoy said that these include adherence to international law, rejection of the Cold War mentality, the indivisibility of security, and the unacceptability of unilateral sanctions.
The inaugural meeting of the “Group of Friends of Peace” in Ukraine was held in New York on 27 September this year, on the initiative of our Chinese and Brazilian partners, he added.
“We note the sincerity of the Group’s founders in seeking to make a constructive contribution into a political and diplomatic settlement of the situation Ukraine. Only time will tell what will come of it.”
At the same time, it is extremely important that this work take into account that the conflict cannot be resolved without addressing its root causes, Khorev said.
“First and foremost, this means the disregard of the United States and its allies for Russia’s security interests, which has manifested itself in the expansion of NATO, the Western-backed anti-constitutional armed coup in Kiev in 2014, the transformation of Ukraine into a battleground against Russia, and the Kiev regime’s violation of the rights of ethnic Russians and the Russian-speaking population.”
A sustainable and lasting peace cannot be achieved without the eradication of nationalism, Nazism, chauvinism and the abolition of all Russophobic laws in Ukraine, he said,
Khorevsaid that it is also important for the Group to consider the principles of the UN Charter in their entirety, totality and interrelationship.
The territorial integrity of States cannot be considered in isolation from the right of peoples to self-determination and the protection of human rights, irrespective of language and religion, he added.
