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Maria Zakharova criticized the new foreign policy strategy of Ukraine
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The purpose of Ukraine’s accession to the EU and NATO is explained not by the desire for its own development, but solely by the task of containing Russia, said Maria Zakharova.
The new strategy of Ukraine’s foreign policy is woven from contradictions, as if it was written by a person with a symptom of cognitive dissonance. This was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova. Online department on Thursday 17 June.
“There, for example, it is about counteracting the glorification of totalitarian ideologies. But in fact, Kiev refuses to join the UN General Assembly resolution condemning the glorification of Nazism, and the country’s streets and stadiums, with his tacit consent, are named after those who fought on Hitler’s side,” Zakharova said.
According to her, one of the priority directions of its foreign policy, Ukraine proclaims support for its exports, but at the same time declares “the need to curtail trade relations with one of the largest trading partners – Russia.”
Zakharova also stressed that “the mantra about the need to return the territories allegedly“ occupied ”by Moscow is constantly being repeated, but the draft does not contain a word about international obligations to resolve the conflict in Donbass, which Kiev has stubbornly ignored for more than six years.
“Even the goal of the country’s accession to the EU and NATO is explained not by the desire for its own development, but solely by the task of containing Russia,” she summed up.
As a reminder, on June 9, the Cabinet of Ministers approved Foreign policy strategy of Ukraine with a course to the EU and NATO. The document says that the policy of the Russian Federation today is the main threat to Ukraine and Europe.
Earlier, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on immediately resolve the issue of Ukraine joining NATO… Ukraine is in danger, independence is at stake, and right now it needs help, the head of state emphasized.
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