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Shoigu says Western “attempts” to isolate Moscow are “failing”
28 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Russian Defense Minister, Sergei Shoigu, has assured this Friday that “the military potential and capabilities of almost all NATO countries” are involved in the war in Ukraine, unleashed on February 24, 2022 by the order of invasion dictated by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“The West has shown its readiness in advance for the confrontation with Russia,” he told a meeting of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) defense ministers in the Indian capital, New Delhi, according to reports. has picked up the Russian news agency TASS.
“Large-scale sanctions against Russia were immediately imposed, arms supplies to Ukraine were organized, intelligence information was provided, and military advisers and mercenaries were sent to the combat zone,” Shoigu said, stressing that “the supply of arms to Kiev only prolongs the conflict and causes new casualties and destruction of infrastructure”.
Thus, he has stated that these supplies “will return like a boomerang” and “will affect stability in Europe and in the world as a whole.” “Weapons shipped will end up on the black market and then in the hands of terrorist organizations, which creates additional risks, especially given the claims about supplying depleted uranium ammunition to the Ukrainian Armed Forces,” she said.
Shoigu has also stressed that the “attempts” of Western countries to “influence Russia’s partners with the aim of isolating it” are “failing”, while stressing that “Washington and its accomplices are carrying out a plan strategy that consists of provoking other countries into a military confrontation with unacceptable states, mainly Russia and China”.
“A clear confirmation of this criminal policy is the conflict in Ukraine. Its true objective is to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, create a threat to China and maintain its monopoly position in the world,” argued Shoigu, who denounced that ” In an attempt to maintain their global dominance, the United States and its allies have seriously undermined the global security architecture.”
“Western opposition to strengthening multipolarity is being most actively applied in the Asia-Pacific region, where the United States has initiated the collapse of the existing system of regional cooperation, based on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). .
In this sense, he has argued that this process began with the creation of blocks such as the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, known as Quad and made up of the United States, India, Australia and Japan, and the AUKUS, made up of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States. . “They are joining with NATO, which has also asked for a dominant role in the area,” he concluded.
