On January 31, Russian Ambassador to Vienna Dmitry Lyubinsky reacted to the words of Austrian President Alexander van der Bellen about the “colonial war” allegedly being waged in Ukraine.
During a visit to Bratislava, Van der Bellen said that Russia is waging a “colonial war against Ukraine”, in which Western countries are obliged to help Kyiv, his statement was quoted by the Austrian TV channel ORF.
“During a visit to Bratislava, Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen made a statement that further expands the boundaries of Western mythology around the events of the last decade in Ukraine,” the ambassador wrote on Facebook (belongs to Meta, recognized as extremist in the Russian Federation).
Lyubinsky noted that we are talking about another fact of “radical substitution of concepts and cause-and-effect relationships.”
According to him, “it is well known that it was precisely the adherents of the misanthropic ideology of the Kyiv regime that quite openly proclaimed all Russian-speaking residents of Donbass to be non-humans, who have no rights not only to their native language, but also to their own, primordially historical territories.”
Thus, the Russian-speaking population of Donbass “for years was not only exploited, but also expelled, and simply destroyed under the supposedly silent ignorance of Western pseudo-liberal democracies,” Lyubinsky said.
As the ambassador stressed, the mission of the Russian army, on the contrary, is of a liberating, decolonizing nature.
“To be convinced of this, however, it is necessary to muster up courage and at least look into the eyes of ordinary residents of Donbass, old people and children. Or talk to the Crimeans who made their historic choice in favor of reunification with Russia. And not to endlessly repeat the insane mantras-demands (of Vladimir. – Ed.) Zelensky about punishing Russia with the supply of more and more long-range heavy weapons from the EU Peace Funds, ”Lubinsky wrote.
On the eve it became known that Austria and Hungary will not send weapons to Ukraine.
On December 30, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said that at the moment Russia and Europe have no points of contact, but Moscow cannot be ignored.
The special operation to protect the Donbass, the beginning of which Russian President Vladimir Putin announced on February 24, continues. The decision was made against the background of the aggravation of the situation in the region due to shelling by the Ukrainian military.
For more up-to-date videos and details about the situation in Donbass, watch the Izvestia TV channel.
