🇷🇺🇺🇸 Ambassador Anatoly Antonov exclusively for #Newsweek (March 19, 2024)

Key points:

🛡In Crimea we had no choice but to stand up in defense of the Russian-speaking population in its historical lands, to fight back against nazis and to stop NATO military machine from approaching our borders.

❗️ It became absolutely clear that people in Crimea, which is predominantly inhabited by Russians, were in serious danger. Crimeans turned to Russia for protection. Obviously, our country could not leave people in trouble and had to come forward.

❌ It is time for ordinary Ukrainians to give up their illusions and realize that the creation of an "anti-Russia" with total dependence on the West doesn't lead to prosperity but to an inevitable downfall of the country.

👉 It is obvious that Western politicians and "professional human rights activists" are absolutely careless about the fate of ordinary Ukrainians caught between the millstones of armed conflict. Our opponents are doing everything possible to ensure the emergence of Ukraine as an anti-Russian State, continuing its suicidal slaughter.

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