The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, has charged heavily against the countries of the NATO who have announced the shipment of long-range weapons to Ukraine. The warning comes a few hours after the UK government announced that it would make the first shipment to Ukraine of a multiple rocket launchers with a range of 80 kilometersfar above the artillery that Kyiv possesses.
Lavrov, very angry after being the victim of the veto of three countries to prevent his plane from flying to Serbiahas said that “the greater the range of weapons sent to Ukraine by the West, the further Russia will move from its border the line from which the ‘neo-Nazis‘ they can launch attacks.”
In recent days, the United States has approved the shipment of long-range rocket launcher systems. The United Kingdom has followed in its footsteps and revealed this Monday that the Ukrainian military will receive training over the next few weeks in British territory to learn how to use these systems, while it has also stressed that the corresponding ammunition M31A1 for use.
Lavrov’s plane banned
Lavrov has branded this Monday as “intolerable” the decision of North Macedonia, Montenegro and Bulgaria not to give permission to the plane in which he was traveling to reach Serbia, where he was scheduled to make an official visit “There are many questions about the reaction to the unprecedented decisions taken by some NATO members, which prevented the visit of the Russian Foreign Minister to Serbia”, said Lavrov himself, who has described what happened as “inconceivable”.
“A sovereign state has been deprived of its right to conduct its foreign policy. Serbia’s international activities towards Russia have been blocked, at least for the time being,” the Russian minister denounced, according to the Interfax news agency.
The Government of Bulgaria confirmed this Monday that it closed its airspace to the plane that was transporting Lavrov in relation to the regime of fiscal sanctions by the European Union (EU) against Moscow for the invasion of Ukraine, triggered on February 24, according to the Bulgarian news agency BTA.
Lavrov was scheduled to visit Serbia on June 6 and 7, but the Serbian president, Aleksandar Vucic, acknowledged that “the situation is getting complicated.” During the day on Sunday, the Serbian Prime Minister, Ana Brnabic, recognized the problem. “It is incredible that the situation in Europe and the world is such that the president of a country has to deal with such things as the logistical organization of a trip by a foreign minister from another country and that it depends on that whether he comes or not,” Brnabic argued in statements to Serbian television.
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