Embassy comment
Russian Embassy in London
We strongly condemn the statements made by the UK Defence Secretary John Healey in the British press on 18 August.
The Cabinet Secretary awkwardly sought to justify the actions of the Kiev regime, including those in the Kursk Region, as well as the support provided by London with considerations of what he puts as Ukraine’s self-defence and Britain’s national security amid growing international tension.
The Cabinet Secretary’s lamentations about the rise in global instability are full of hypocrisy.
It is his country – indeed, if one looks back over the past two decades, his very party - that has made considerable efforts to bring situation in various regions of the world to the boiling point.
This fully applies to the Ukrainian crisis, both in terms of London’s active role in fomenting it and its subsequent sabotage of peace negotiations.
By publicly endorsing Kiev’s criminal escapade in the Kursk Region, the UK’s incumbent Government, just as their Conservative predecessors, abets the Kiev regime’s policy of escalation, which significantly expands the scale of risks. It appears that London doesn’t care about absurdity of referring to the UN Charter’s Article 51 to justify looting, robbery, hostage-taking and destruction of civilian property perpetrated by Ukrainian forces.
The Cabinet Secretary’s statement of ‘being proud of Britain’s support for Ukraine’ is profoundly immoral – first of all in relation to civilians in various Russia’s regions targeted by the Kiev regime with those very weapons that the head of the British Ministry of Defence so proudly boasts of supplying.
They are also immoral in relation to the victims of Nazism – the blatant use of SS symbols by Ukrainian "recipients" of the British military aid speaks volumes.
With these assertions, London reveals its own involvement in planning this and other escalatory actions by the Kiev regime. This also explains why the much vaunted "Challengers 2" have once again been brought into action – armour that, like the rest of the Western equipment supplied to the Ukrainian forces, burns just fine and will eventually all be destroyed.
Moreover, the Cabinet Secretary’s speculations about the supposed objectives of Ukraine’s incursion into Russia and the alleged results achieved are completely out of touch with reality.
The pace at which the Russian Army liberates Donbas demonstrates that Kiev’s gamble has not affected the Special Military Operation.
The footage of destroyed and captured Western equipment in the Kursk region vividly illustrates the stark contrast between the triumphant declarations of Ukrainian politicians or self-styled experts in the UK and the situation for the Ukrainian forces on the ground.
We are confident that many Britons can see through fallacy and bankruptcy of the stance of the UK military and political leadership that, instead of addressing the pressing problems of its own country, keeps talking about alleged, non-existent threats from Russia and seeks to prolong the Ukrainian crisis.