Russian foreign minister: Aggression against us will be met with ‘decisive response’

The United Nations – While the new tensions are increasing between Russia and the powers of NATO, the first diplomat of Moscow insisted for world leaders on Saturday that his nation does not intend to attack Europe but will set up a “decisive response” to all attack.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergey Lavrov, spoke during the United Nations General Assembly after weeks during which unauthorized flights in NATO airspace – intrusion The alliance blame on Russia – has made the alarm in Europe, in particular after NATO planes have shot drones during Poland and Estonia Russian hunting proved to be in its territory and flocked for 12 minutes.

Russia has denied that its planes entered the Estonian airspace and said that drones were not targeting Poland, the ally of Moscow stressing that the Ukrainian signal sent the aircraft.

But European leaders consider incidents as intentional and provocative movements intended to shake NATO and explain how the alliance will react. The Alliance warned Russia this week that NATO would use all means to defend itself against any other violation of its airspace.

At the UN, Lavrov maintained his Russia who faces threats.

“Russia has never had and has no such intentions” to attack European or NATO countries, he said. “However, any assault against my country will be greeted by a decisive response. There should be no doubt about this among the people of NATO and the EU.”

Lavrov spoke about three years in the invasion of Ukraine by Russia, a war that the international community has largely deplored.

US President Donald Trump said this week that he thought Ukraine could reconquer the entire territory she had lost against Russia. It was a notable change of tone of an American leader who had previously suggested that Ukraine should make concessions and could never recover all the regions that Russia has occupied since the seizure of the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and the launch of a large -scale invasion in 2022.

Three weeks earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country and the United States had a “mutual understanding” and that Trump’s administration “listens to us”. Trump and Putin held a summit in Alaska in early August, but left without agreement to end the war.

Wounding a note in particular open from a country that has often castigated the West, Lavrov noted the summit and said that Russia had “hopes” to continue speaking with the United States.

“In the Approaches of the Current Us Administration, we see a desire not only to contribute to way to realistic resolve the ukrainian crisis, but also a desire to develop pragmatic cooperation without adopting an ideological stance,” The diplomat Said, Portraying the Powers as Counterparts of Sorts: “Russia and the US Bear Responsibility for the State of Affairs in the World, and for Avoiding Risks that could plunge humanity into a new war.

Admittedly, Lavrov always had sharp words for NATO, an alliance that includes the United States, and for the West in general and the European Union.

Trump’s new vision on Ukraine’s prospects came after meeting its president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, on the sidelines of the General Assembly on Tuesday – seven months after a televised explosion between the two in the Oval office. This time, the doors were closed and the tenor was obviously different – “a good meeting”, as Zelenskyy described it in his assembly speech the next day.

For the fourth consecutive year, Zelenskyy called on the collection of presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials to get Russia out of his country – and warned that the inaction would endanger other countries.

“Ukraine is only the first,” he said.

Russia has offered various explanations to the Ukraine War, including guaranteeing Russia its own security after NATO has extended to the east over the years and has come closer to Ukraine after the move of Russia in Crimea. Russia also said that its offensive was intended to protect Russians in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine and the West denounced the apartment of Russia as an act of aggression not provoked.

Addressing the devastating war in Gaza, Lavrov condemned the surprise attack by Hamas activists in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, but said “there is no justification” for the Israeli murder of Palestinian civilians, including children.

The attack on Hamas killed around 1,200 people in Israel; 251 were taken hostage. The radical offensive of Israel killed more than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health. This does not give a break in civilian deaths and combatants, but says that around half of the people killed were women and children.

Lavrov also said that there was no basis for a potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which the Palestinians consider a key element of their future state, as well as Gaza and East Jerusalem.

Israel has not announced such a decision, but several primary members of the Netanyahu government have advocated to do so. Officials recently approved a controversial regulation project that would effectively reduce the West Bank in two, according to a decision of criticism, could condemn the chances of a Palestinian state.

Between the Gaza War and the situation in the West Bank, “we are essentially dealing with an attempted coup to bury UN decisions on the creation of a Palestinian State,” said Lavrov.

The international community has long adopted a “two-state solution” to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the idea of ​​a Palestinian state, saying that he would reward Hamas – a position he reiterated on Friday at the General Assembly.