Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov just denied Russia invaded Ukraine, never mind Moscow’s large, but seemingly incompetent, military which has been mauling its democratic, pro-Western neighbor for 15 days now.
Latest Barrage of Outrageous Russian Lies
Russia’s top diplomat dismissed the global indignation over the Russian military’s atrocious bombing of a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s Mariupol as “pathetic crying.”
Lavrov spoke on Thursday after he met with his Ukrainian counterpart, Dmitro Kuleba.
This is the most high-profile Russia-Ukraine meeting since Putin ordered his military hordes to storm Ukraine from three sides, with little success due to the valiant, unyielding resistance of the Ukrainian defenders.
Lavrov, one of Putin’s most loyal lackeys, kept insisting the Russian troops are just performing “special operations” on the territory of Ukraine.
One of Lavrov’s most disgusting accusations against Ukraine was the Ukrainian defenders are using civilians as “human shields”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov following today's talks in Turkey:
"We have no plans to attack other countries. In fact, we did not attack Ukraine." pic.twitter.com/EV3um1hbFA
— Business Ukraine mag (@Biz_Ukraine_Mag) March 10, 2022
Petrifying war crime in Mariupol. Russian air strike targeted a hospital and a maternity house. We could stop this barbarism by protecting our skies. For the sake of humanity, provide us with aircraft, now! Lives are being lost while this is being considered over and over again. pic.twitter.com/CkacLlF0ZQ
— Dmytro Kuleba (@DmytroKuleba) March 9, 2022
"I'm ready to continue this engagement with the purpose of ending the war in Ukraine"
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba says his country and Russia have agreed to continue efforts to seek a solution to the humanitarian issues in Ukrainehttps://t.co/halkf0dYlo pic.twitter.com/JIcKx3hn8D
— BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) March 10, 2022
Sky's Dominic Waghorn asks why the Ukrainians should take the Russian side seriously given it has invaded.
Sergei Lavrov answers saying he wants a "Ukraine which will be friendly" and "not creating a Nazi state".https://t.co/X3flQUBL0r
📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 pic.twitter.com/FDbf6r01IH— Sky News (@SkyNews) March 10, 2022
The Entire World Knows Putin’s Regime is Lying
Putin’s first diplomat also lied shamelessly, as cited by The Daily Mail, that the Russian troops are operating safe passage corridors for humanitarian evacuation.
Meanwhile, Russians have been lying and violating the ceasefires by shooting and bombing to kill those very civilians.
The city of Mariupol alone has seen no fewer than 1,200 civilian deaths already. It is resorting to burying the deceased in a mass grave, simply because Putin’s constant shelling and bombardment is preventing proper burials.
In his outrageous comments in Turkey on Thursday, the Russian Foreign Minister rejected all global media reports about “the so-called atrocities” of the Russian military.
Without giving any evidence, he claimed Ukrainian “nationalists” removed the women and children from the bombed maternity hospital in Mariupol, and have been using it in order to shoot back at the Russian invaders.
Lavrov also fumed that the US and NATO are supplying weapons to Ukrainians so the latter can defend themselves against Putin’s murderous hordes.
In contrast to Lavrov’s lowly behavior and lies, Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmitro Kuleba declared after the failed negotiations that his nation hasn’t surrendered to Putin’s aggression, and isn’t going to surrender.
He blasted Lavrov for parroting the “traditional” Putin propaganda narratives in which Ukraine and the West are “evil Nazis,” thirsty for Russian bloody, while Putin is the messiah of humanity.
Never mind the entire world knows the truth about Russian aggression and militancy, as well as Putin’s crimes against humanity and war crimes committed not only now in Ukraine, but for the last few years in Syria, as well.
The latest lies of Foreign Minister Lavrov came against the backdrop of another Ukrainian military win. On Thursday morning, Ukraine’s defenders ambushed and wiped out an entire Russian tank column trying to attack the capital Kyiv from the east in a pincer move.
Lavrov visibly nervous at the press conference pic.twitter.com/W5uBJUbrDE
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 10, 2022
Listening to Sergei Lavrov the Russian Foreign Secretary at the Diplomacy Forum in Turkey I must say I’ve never heard such a load of lies and nonsense in all my life. To Putin/Lavrov the war is everybody’s fault except Russia.Russia a 21st Century rogue nation, victory to Ukraine pic.twitter.com/uBlRH5wr0x
— Off the Cuff (@off_the_cuff_IE) March 10, 2022
Mariupol remains blocked both for the evacuation of people and humanitarian cargo. This was reported by Iryna Vereshchuk, Minister for Reintegration of Temporarily Occupied Territories.
The mayor of #Mariupol reported that shelling and air strikes continued in the city. pic.twitter.com/VGMHMgqImW
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 10, 2022
The family is trying to evacuate from the city, which is constantly under the shelling. pic.twitter.com/X0X3TT6aP7
— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 10, 2022