Russian violation of Estonian airspace brings region ‘closer to conflict’, foreign minister says – Europe live | Russia

Russia’s consultant, first deputy consultant Dmitry Polyanskiy, is up subsequent.

He wastes no time and he goes on the assault right away saying that “gone for good” is the time when Europe was related to the Renaissance, the enlightenment, tradition, and science, as he accuses it of “primitive hatred” of Russia as a substitute.

He says that “Voltaire, Rousseau, Kant” had been changed by “von der Leyens, Kallases, Johnsons and different small time blinkered russophobes.”

“Due to their efforts, primitive hatred for our nation in an try and painting Russia as the primary menace to pan-European safety is, earlier than our very eyes, turning into the one ideology of European states,” he says.

He says that “all occasions are instantly interpreted by way of an anti-Russian prism,” with “the very concept that warfare with Russia is unavoidable being frantically pounded into the heads of the European populace.

He accuses Europe for “spreading blatant lies” with “paranoia … reaching heights by no means seen earlier than.”

Going again to the earlier UNSC assembly over the Russian drones incursion into Poland, he says Polish accusations in opposition to Russia two weeks in the past had been “groundless” and superior with “not a single piece of proof.”

He says Poland rejected the Russian provide to seek the advice of on drones, and assaults Warsaw for utilizing it as a “pretext for a brand new wave of the Russophobia marketing campaign they’re engaged in.”

(The Polish overseas minister, Radosław Sikorski, is in attendance at the moment.)

He says the Estonian accusations are a part of the identical “spectacle entitled ‘blame Russia for every little thing’.

He insists Russian fighter jets by no means crossed into Estonian airspace, however performed a deliberate flight to an airbase in Kaliningrad, “carried out in strict accordance with worldwide airspace use guidelines.”

Polyanskiy then goes on fierce assault in opposition to Ukraine and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which he accuses of corruption, theft, violation of human rights, amongst others.

He then goes again to his unique declare that European leaders attempt to “whip up anti-Russian hysteria,” earlier than extensively quoting JD Vance’s speech on the Munich convention earlier this week and repeating the US vice-president’s level that the primary menace dealing with Europe is “not Russia, not China, however … inside.”

“Europe at the moment is like an unhinged, paranoid particular person, unable to reply to criticism, neither is it capable of bear in mind the teachings of historical past,” he says.

And so forth. I imply, you get the thought.

He ends by saying:

“If you wish to get hysterical, to ferment and to proceed levy baseless accusations, go proper forward, however do this with out our participation.

We received’t be partaking on this theatre of the absurd, and also you don’t want us there.

Once you resolve that you just need to interact in a critical dialogue about European safety, in regards to the destiny of our widespread continent, about how you can make this continent affluent and safe for everyone, we’ll be prepared, the place to search out us.”