The European Union has charged Friday against the «Orwellian» discourse of Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which «truth is lies and lies are truth», stressing that Russia is solely responsible for the «atrocities» in Ukraine and for continuing the war eight months after the invasion.
On Thursday, the Russian president insisted that there is a campaign against Russia, which only defends its right to exist and develop freely, and said that the West «denies the sovereignty of countries and peoples, their identity and uniqueness».
At a press conference from Brussels, EU foreign spokeswoman Nabila Massrali replied to the Kremlin by criticizing that in its discourse «right is wrong and wrong is right» and «truth is lies and lies are truth.» «The fact is that Russia is the one waging an illegal war against Ukraine and it is its armed forces that are behind serious atrocities and war crimes against the Ukrainian population,» she said, after describing Putin’s words as «Orwellian».
«The fact is that it is Russia that flagrantly violates international law and breaks the UN Charter and it is Russia’s actions that jeopardize peace and security all over the world,» he remarked.
Massrali also rejected Moscow’s accusations that Kiev is preparing a ‘dirty bomb’, recalling that already on other occasions the Russian authorities have falsely accused others of «their own actions» seeking a framework to justify their aggression against the neighboring country.
«The fact is that if it were not for Russia there would not be this war. It can end this war today if it withdraws all its troops and military hardware from the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine,» he concluded.
In this way, the EU vehemently answers Putin’s words in which he minimized Russia’s responsibility for the war and said that there is no «political or military» sense in a possible use of nuclear weapons in Ukraine, attributing these threats about the use of this type of weaponry to Western strategies.
In this regard, he recalled that the only country that has used nuclear weapons has been the United States. «The era of Western dominance in the world is fading away,» the Russian leader said, adding that we are at a «turning point,» as this is the «most dangerous» decade since World War II.
Putin has also put on the table that as long as there are nuclear weapons «there is always the danger of their use», although Western countries, with their «provocations», force the thesis that Moscow is going to use this type of weaponry to «influence» its «friends, allies and neutral states».
