MOSCOW, January 30. /TASS/. European nations are attempting to maintain the illusion that European solidarity remains intact; however, their evident disarray and loss of direction betray this pretense, Vasily Nebenzya, Russia’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said in an interview on the Rossiya-24 TV channel, while commenting on Europe's response to US President Donald Trump's remarks about Greenland.

"There is no European sovereignty," Nebenzya declared. "Europe is governed by political pygmies. I’ve been saying this for a long time – it’s a fact. The guiding principle has vanished, and now we see a race of cockroaches." He further elaborated, "They have become, in essence, victims of their own conceptual framework, based on rules they once promoted. Now, they are no longer the architects of these rules – they are merely subjects, not the authors. Whether this is Trump’s revenge for Ukraine, I cannot say, but what is clear is that Europe is utterly confused."

Nebenzya observed that European officials "are attempting to pretend that European solidarity persists," yet "their eyes reveal confusion and a lack of clarity about where to turn next."