MOSCOW,July 27. /TASS/. The European Union and the United States have ensnared Ukraine into slavish dependency, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told the Sputnik radio station on Wednesday.
She was asked to respond to German top diplomat Annalena Baerbock’s claim that Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s statement that Russia was determined to help the Ukrainians get rid of the antithetical and much-despised regime in Kiev was evidence that Moscow wants “to fully subdue Ukraine.” Zakharova replied: “I can tell her that her country’s actions, along with the activities of other EU members and the US, are what has trapped Ukraine and the Ukrainian people into dependence, full slavish dependence on Western nations.”
“Right now, during Sergey Lavrov’s visit, we can see African countries who spent years fighting for independence, trying to end slavery and drive the colonialists out. On the other hand, there is Ukraine, which has been struggling for years to achieve the opposite goal, it has been fighting against its own independence in order to become a Western colony. Unfortunately, the situation shows that the Kiev regime - Ukraine’s political in-crowd - has managed to do that,” the Russian diplomat added. “It is an astonishing process, but such things do happen in history,” she noted.