Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. Archive photoMOSCOW, May 27.The United States and NATO are directly responsible for events in Europe, a military conflict in Ukraine could have been avoided if Russia's demands for security guarantees were taken seriously, said Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel. «For decades, the United States has constantly sought to expand its military and hegemonic dominance through the further expansion of NATO towards the countries of Eastern Europe. The United States and NATO are directly responsible for the outcome of today's events in Europe,» he said during a meeting of the Supreme Eurasian Economic Council, broadcast by the Rossiya 24 TV channel.The United States and its satellites are stepping up efforts to contain Russia, Lavrov said «Military conflict could have been avoided if Russia's justified demands for security guarantees were considered seriously and with respect,» the Cuban leader emphasized. He added that Cuba opposes unilateral coercive measures against Russia and Belarus, which aggravate the regional and international economic situation and impede the development of peoples. As Diaz-Canel emphasized, Cuba, faithful to the principles of international law and the UN Charter, «will continue to defend peace under any circumstances, advocating a solution to the conflict through dialogue between the parties, providing guarantees of security and sovereignty for all». The President added that Cuba, at the right moment, «condemned and rejected the acts of violence that took place earlier this year in Kazakhstan, which were incited from abroad to undermine the internal order and destabilize the constitutional government of this country.»
The Foreign Ministry commented on the partial easing of US sanctions against CubaRussia launched a military operation in Ukraine on February 24. President Vladimir Putin called its goal «the protection of people who have been subjected to bullying and genocide by the Kyiv regime for eight years.» For this, according to him, it is planned to carry out «demilitarization and denazification of Ukraine», to bring to justice all war criminals responsible for «bloody crimes against civilians» in Donbass. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Armed Forces strike only at military infrastructure and Ukrainian troops and , on March 25, completed the main tasks of the first stage — significantly reduced the combat potential of Ukraine. The main goal in the Russian military department was called the liberation of Donbass. A number of Western countries have introduced several packages of sanctions against the Russian Federation because of the situation in Ukraine. Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev, speaking about the consequences of sanctions against the Russian Federation, said that they would lead to a full-fledged international food crisis with the prospect of starvation in individual countries.
