Syrian President Bashar al-AssadBEIRUT, Mar 17The Western policy of discrimination against Russia is unprecedented in world history, it limits the principles of international law, turning the world into a jungle, said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, speaking to teachers and employees of state educational institutions. «Western discrimination against Russia is unprecedented in world history … The West is lying in every word in pursuit of world power and theft … The West proved that international law is worthless, and crossed out all the principles of world agreements, turning the world into a wild forest,» the Syrian state broadcasting agency quoted Assad as saying. The President of the SAR noted that there are opportunities to confront the West , and called for «dynamic thinking» and strong will to find economic solutions amid unilateral sanctions. After the fall of the USSR, Assad said, the world became like «a wild forest run by Western thieves in the absence of international law.»
Serbia called the persecution of Russians in the West the return of Nazism «The West is experiencing a historical turning point in its world role with the outbreak of the conflict in Ukraine … The policy followed by the West is a policy of power and the transformation of the world order into the law of the jungle. The conflict in Ukraine exposed the true face of the authorities of the Western countries before their peoples,» Assad added. Russia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to abuse and genocide by the Kiev regime for eight years.» To this end, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine» bloody crimes against civilians» of Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops. With the support of the Russian Armed Forces, the DNR and LNR groups are developing an offensive, but there is no talk of the occupation of Ukraine, the Russian president emphasized. will reach the bottom, Medvedev said
