- According to a source, which cited the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, the head of the President’s Office, mentioned this during a speech at the NATO summit.
- He stated that all terrorist tactics, including mass murder, torture, and destruction, are used by Russia.
- Unfortunately, blackmail, bloodshed and destruction are the backbones of Russia’s foreign policy,” Yermak said.
The cornerstones of Russian foreign policy are extortion, bloodshed, and devastation, and Russia views any mention of compromises or even dialogue as a sign of weakness.
According to a source, which cited the President’s Office, Andriy Yermak, the head of the President’s Office, mentioned this during a speech at the NATO summit.
He stated that all terrorist tactics, including mass murder, torture, and destruction, are used by Russia. Yermak further emphasized that the energy and food crises, which are already beginning to badly impact everyone on the planet, were planned by Russia in advance. All of this, he added, is done to put pressure on the international community and break down individual states’ opposition.
“Finally, the last argument is blackmail with nuclear weapons. However, Russia sees any talks of concessions or even negotiations as a weakness. Unfortunately, blackmail, bloodshed and destruction are the backbone of Russia’s foreign policy,” Yermak said.
He added that Russia is increasingly convinced that it cannot defeat Ukraine on the battlefield, so it is increasingly resorting to bloody terror – the killing of civilians and the destruction of civilian infrastructure.
“In recent days, hundreds of missiles have been fired at dozens of Ukrainian cities. Every day, tens of thousands of munitions of various types hit our residential neighborhoods, kindergartens, hospitals and power plants. This is done deliberately. The whole world now knows about the Ukrainian city of Kremenchuk, where the day before yesterday a Russian missile hit a regular shopping mall. There were about a thousand people inside. They were going shopping – women, children and the elderly,” Yermak said.
He emphasised that the activities taken by Russia constitute textbook terrorism on a scale that has not been seen since World War II.
“They seek to destroy the Ukrainian state and erase from textbooks even mentions of the Ukrainian people. But we know for sure: if we give in today, they will go further tomorrow. After 2014, Ukrainians paid with their own blood to prove the axiom: Russia always violates the agreements it signs,” Yermak added.
He claims that Russia adheres to philosophies and customs that are reminiscent of the worst autocracies of the 20th century.
“History has taught us that the aggressor’s appetites grow with each concession. That is why the security of not only Europe, but also the whole of humanity is threatened. And we believe that if Russia is not stopped in Ukraine, NATO will inevitably be drawn into the war. In addition, the unpunished aggressor gives grounds for other criminals to build their own plans of aggression,” Yermak said.
According to him, more and more politicians around the world believe that Russia should not win the war it has started against Ukraine. “This is good. But the point is that not everyone realizes that Ukraine must win this war. This is a guarantee that Russia will not ‘be able to repeat’ the same thing with any other country,” he said.
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