Europe betrayed international law when the heads of the diplomatic departments of Germany and Poland first acted as guarantors of the Agreement on the settlement of the political crisis in Ukraine, signed by Viktor Yanukovich, and then they themselves agreed that the opposition trampled on it. Thus, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov commented on the role of Europeans in the Ukrainian crisis. "This is Ukrainian history, the history of the coup, the history of the treachery of the West in relation to international law, when the agreement signed by the foreign ministers of the leading countries of the European Union was simply trampled," Lavrov said in an interview with "Kommersant". - After that, the European Union began to convince us that it should be so, and that now nothing can be done about it. This, by and large, European shame, "- said the Minister. According to him, almost 4 years after the Kiev coup and the Crimean referendum, the West begins to prove that the Russians in Ukraine did not threaten anything, that all events of that time were peaceful, while Moscow and, in particular, the Russian Foreign Ministry issued "peaceful demonstrations for attempts expel the Russians from the peninsula ". "It's enough to watch videos of the time when the Supreme Council of Crimea was just surrounded by outrageous thugs, not to mention the" trains of friendship "that Dmitry Yarosh sent to the Crimea," Lavrov recalls..

He pointed out that Russia has "red lines" that no one has the right to cross. In particular, this is the border of the Russian Federation, these are the interests of compatriots abroad. "I think that serious politicians in the West understand that these" red lines "must be respected, as well as they were respected during the Cold War," Lavrov said.. Then, according to the minister, there was also a tense situation, but politicians at least respected the rules. Now all decency and manners are dropped.