Syrian Arab News Agency S A N A
Moscow, SANA- Supplying Ukraine with Western weapons and air defense missiles threatens the global air traffic, Russian Foreign Ministry has affirmed.
“Western weapons which find their way to Ukraine are spreading all over the world, to the zones of other regional conflicts, falling into the hands of organized crime, terrorists and extremists … The necessity to raise the issue of security of civil air traffic in the world, including over Europe, will soon arise,” the ministry said in a statement cited by Sputnik.
The ministry believes that Western arms “put into the hands of the criminal Ukrainian government and mercenaries are killing the civilian population, including women and children, in the Donetsk and Lugansk republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions.”
The ministry noted that “the EU and its member-states transferred to Kiev arms and military equipment worth more than 12 billion euros, delivered heavy weapons, planes, tanks, agreed to supply the Ukrainian armed forces with 1 million artillery shells by the end of the year, and do not prevent the recruitment of mercenaries in their countries.”
The Russian Foreign Ministry said that “any speculations by the European Union about its peacekeeping in the current conditions are very hypocritical since the EU is not undertaking any efforts toward a political settlement.”
“Moreover, the EU is already de facto participating in the Ukraine conflict. It provides political cover for any crimes, provocations, and staging carried out by the Ukrainian regime,” the ministry said.
Ruaa al-Jazaeri
