They Are Already at an Unprecedented Low Level: Zakharova

The signing of a security agreement between Paris and Berlin with Kiev does not affect relations with Moscow; they are at an unprecedented low level.

This was stated by Maria Zakharova, the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, in an interview with RIA Novosti.

“Referring to the specific Russian-German and Russian-French relations, I would like to emphasize that, unfortunately, at this stage, little can affect them for the worse. They are already at an unprecedented low level,” she said.

According to Zakharova, “former partners have left behind a substantial luggage of large-scale mutually beneficial bilateral cooperation that has been accumulated over several generations.”

“This is not our choice. Over the past two years, we have witnessed how NATO countries, particularly Germany and France, which play an especially active role (with Berlin ranking second after the United States in the volume of supplying arms and military equipment to the Ukrainian armed forces), are pumping Ukraine with modern lethal systems, training servicemen, and providing intelligence data, contributing to the escalation of military operations,” Zakharova noted.

“All of this makes them direct accomplices in the actions of the Kiev regime,” she emphasized.

According to her, “the elites of these countries are still entertaining themselves with illusions of the possibility of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia, considering only Vladimir Zelensky’s ultimatum, let me reiterate, for us an unacceptable ‘formula’ as the only basis for resolving the Ukrainian crisis.”

“In this context, the signing of new agreements is yet another, albeit symbolic, step in the West's hybrid war against Russia, reaffirming the intent for a long-term confrontation with our country and the unwillingness to pursue a political-diplomatic resolution of the conflict,” she concluded.