Lavrov: Western govts' points about humanitarian aid for Ukraine represent "outrageous cynicism"
SOCHI, Russia. Aug 11 (Interfax) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday accused the leaders of Britain, the United States and Germany of "outrageous cynicism."
"We don't cease to be amazed at statements coming from Western capitals about what is happening in south-eastern Ukraine," Lavrov told reporters.
"If what has been reported by press services in London, Washington and, I think, Berlin as well, is true - about telephone contacts between the leaders of the United States, Britain and Germany, - if it's true that the three leaders agreed that there's no need for humanitarian relief for south-eastern Ukraine because all necessary measures are already being taken, it is outrageous cynicism," the minister said.
He said that what was happening in eastern Ukraine could be seen from footage that journalists were sometimes risking their lives to capture. He also accused the Western media of ignoring the suffering of the population in the part of the country.
"Today I have again watched what mainly took up the programming on Euronews, and I didn't hear anything about Ukraine, anything but the tragedy that has become a humanitarian disaster already," he said.
"It is the peak of cynicism. I believe that our Western colleagues are thus trying to distort the true picture, distract attention from the armed force that is being used to suppress those who can't accept the armed coup that violated all European values and violated the Constitution of Ukraine," Lavrov said.
He claimed that what the West says determines what Kyiv does.
"In our contacts with Western leaders, we again call all parties in the conflict to stop and to fulfil what they have agreed on, namely to sit down at the negotiating table and start a comprehensive constitutional process with the participation of all regions. So that the Ukrainians themselves can agree on how they should live together in the same country," Lavrov said.
