Russia`s plans don’t embody the occupation of Ukrainian territories, however the safety of civilians and Russian residents in Donetsk and Lugansk, Russian Ambassador to Cyprus Stanislav Osadchiy mentioned in an announcement to CNA on Thursday.
On the similar time, with regard to the doable affect of the sanctions in opposition to Russia on Cyprus, he estimated that the volatility of the ruble within the overseas trade market, provoked by the brand new package deal of sanctions, will considerably improve the price of vacationer packages denominated in euros, which can negatively have an effect on the vacationer visitors from Russia to Cyprus.
Osadchiy, who was responding to CNA questions on the difficulty mentioned “Russia has been doing all the things within the final eight years to make sure that the scenario in Donbass is resolved peacefully throughout the framework of the Minsk agreements. However we see that the forces that seized energy in Kiev in 2014 have in the end deserted the peace agreements on the official degree.”
“The US and its European allies over time have chosen the trail of hushing up the crimes of the Kiev regime in southeastern Ukraine, in addition to the information of the particular genocide of the Russian inhabitants within the area,” he mentioned.
Quite the opposite, the Russian ambassador added, “the USA and NATO nations determined to fill the nation with trendy kinds of weapons, pushing it into conflict,” noting that “as an alternative of stopping the usage of drive by the Kiev authorities in Donbass, Washington launched an unprecedented marketing campaign of disinformation and demonisation of Russia to shift the accountability for the tragic penalties of Ukraine`s reckless sport to Moscow”.
“We can’t and won’t ignore this. We had been merely left with out every other option to defend our folks besides the measures we used right now,” the Russian diplomat mentioned, including that “the Individuals’s Republics of Donbass have requested us for assist. After that, in accordance with Article 51 of the United Nations Constitution, upon the endorsement of the Federal Council of Russia and in pursuance of the friendship and mutual help agreements with the Donetsk Individuals`s Republic and the Lugansk Individuals`s Republic, the choice was made to launch a particular army operation.”
As Osadchiy pressured, “Russia`s plans don’t embody the occupation of Ukrainian territory, however we’re additionally not going to attend till the Kiev regime, with the assist and tacit approval of the West, arranges a `massacre` in japanese Ukraine. We are going to defend civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk, together with the residents of the Russian Federation who stay there,” he mentioned.
As for the affect of sanctions on the Russian economic system, Osadchiy mentioned that ” it actually exists and it doesn’t please us”, including that “over the numerous years of ongoing sanction strain we now have developed a set of anti-sanctions measures in all areas of enterprise and finance, which permits us to mitigate the damaging results.”
Responding to a query a couple of doable affect of the suspension of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline completion on gasoline deliveries from Russia, the Russian official replied that “Gazprom will rigorously, as previously, fulfill all its obligations underneath long-term and spot contracts”, stressing on the similar time that since European firms are among the many stakeholders and most important beneficiaries of the Nord Stream 2 mission, “unusual shoppers in a dozen European nations will undergo as they are going to be pressured to purchase American LNG at a a lot larger value. And that is precisely what the US has tried to attain”.
Requested concerning the subsequent steps in Ukraine and whether or not there may be nonetheless room for diplomatic dialogue, the Russian ambassador replied that there’s at all times scope for negotiation.
“Within the context of a pointy improve of army exercise of the Ukrainian military on the contact line, the mass shelling of the territory of Donbass with heavy weapons within the final days, we took the one doable proper determination to guard tens of millions of civilians in Donetsk and Lugansk from bodily annihilation”, he mentioned. “The way forward for the disputed territories ought to be resolved in the midst of direct peace negotiations between the Kiev authorities and the management of those republics”, he added.
Requested whether or not the EU sanctions may have an effect on bilateral relations between Russia and Cyprus, Osadchiy famous that “as soon as once more our bilateral relations have gotten a hostage to others’ geopolitical video games whose goal is to undermine the pleasant relations between the 2 nations”, including that “the volatility of the ruble within the overseas trade market, provoked by the brand new package deal of sanctions, will considerably improve the price of vacationer packages denominated in euros, which can negatively have an effect on the vacationer visitors from Russia to Cyprus”.