Tensions between Moscow and Brussels hit a new low after Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova torched a joint EU-UK statement on “peace for Ukraine” as “another Nazi-style pamphlet.”
The document, signed by leaders from France, Germany, the UK, Poland, Italy, Finland, and EC President Ursula von der Leyen, insists that only “pressure on the Russian Federation” can end the war. Moscow countered that the West’s plan is a political provocation dressed as peace, designed to entrench conflict rather than resolve it.
Zakharova accused Kiev’s backers of engaging in a morbid “political necrophilia” — a relationship bound by “fierce reciprocity” but devoid of genuine diplomacy — while refusing to halt weapons shipments to Ukrainian forces.
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov echoed the charge, claiming Western Europe is “once again under a Nazi flag,” pursuing a “disastrous venture” to strategically defeat Russia at the expense of Ukrainian lives.
Behind the rhetoric lies a grim reality: a grinding war with no clear offramp, mounting civilian casualties, and deepening geopolitical fault lines — where diplomacy has been replaced by ultimatums, and “peace talks” have become another battlefield.
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