Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov known as on Friday US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s remarks on attainable confrontation if Ukraine fails within the battle with Moscow a “Freudian slip of tongue.”
“It is a like a Freudian slip of tongue, so, he’s saying what they were thinking,” Lavrov mentioned on the Antalya Diplomacy Forum in Türkiye.
“Before that everyone said that we cannot allow Ukraine to lose, because Putin wouldn’t stop at that and would invade Poland, Finland … and now we hear someone openly saying, Secretary Austin openly saying that we do not have these plans, so it’s the other way round and Americans have those plans, because they feel how Europeans is drifting away from them.”
The Russian minister mentioned Europe is the principle sufferer of the coverage of making an attempt to tug Ukraine into NATO.
Speaking at a House Armed Services Committee listening to to debate his latest hospitalization, Austin mentioned if Ukraine falls, Russia and NATO may come right into a direct navy battle.
“Quite frankly, if Ukraine falls, I really believe that NATO will be in a fight with Russia,” Austin mentioned.
Source: www.anews.com.tr