Sergei Stepashin
The British Prime Minister shows a staggering arrogance
and frightening lack of historical perspective in supporting the neo-Nazi
regime of the Ukrainian government, and luring the Russian Federation into a
conflict with the European Union and the West by blaming it for condoning the
shooting down of Flight MH17 on 1 August over the disputed territory of eastern
Ukraine.
Last month, David Cameron published an article in The Sunday Times that, in a series of sweeping accusations, marked a high point in interventions by the West which fuel conflict in Ukraine and, eventually, could drag Russia into a war with the European Union.
Even before this intervention, US and EU politicians had been drumming up the conflict, first by helping neo-fascists in Ukraine into power, who then committed atrocities against the people of eastern Ukraine.
But Cameron’s article stands out as the first time that the head of a leading European power has directly sought war with Russia.
Stirred by such support, Ukrainian troops began their assault on Lugansk and Donetsk, mercilessly destroying those cities and all the citizens within them.
Just as in 1938, when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain called on European leaders to support the German Nazis in their campaign against the USSR, the present Prime Minister expressed unequivocal support for the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and angrily demanded that his European colleagues “change their attitude to Russia fundamentally”.
He is attempting to lure us into war.
As we seek to avoid a return to the nightmare of global conflict, it is incumbent upon us to answer the allegations and threats made by Cameron.
First, the statement that “the growing weight of evidence points to a clear conclusion: that flight MH17 was blown out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile fired from a rebel-held area” is an outright fallacy.
In reality, evidence grows by the day to confirm President Vladimir Putin’s statement – made just after the crash – that the plane was shot down by the Ukrainian military.
Cameron is surely aware that a Ukrainian Air Force fighter was found near the downed aircraft.
It was reported by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defense, and confirmed by the Spanish air traffic controller in Kiev, as well as the local population near the crash site.
Then there is data from just before the crash showing that Ukrainian air forces rapidly activated their fighters in the area.
That this crime was prepared in advance is confirmed further by the fact that flight MH17 was lured off its path and into a military trap prepared by the Ukrainian army.
Moreover, the outrageous fraud that purported to show intercepted communications from rebel leaders discussing the attack on a civilian aircraft clearly indicates that the Security Service of Ukraine – which, as Mr Cameron knows, are controlled by the CIA – were involved in preparing for this crime and covering its tracks.
The fraud has been perpetrated in order to provoke European countries into war with Russia. And Mr Cameron is a central figure in this criminal provocation.
Second, Mr Cameron insults us with the incorrect accusation that the downing of MH17 “is a direct result of Russia destabilising a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them”.
He adds: “We must turn this moment of outrage into a moment of action.”
I will direct our response to the respected leaders of NATO countries: the truth is that this tragedy is a direct result of your actions.
You and your colleagues have supported a coup d’état and armed rebellion in Ukraine, carried out under the banner of neo-Nazism.
You must be aware of the mass murder of Ukrainian citizens committed by the Poroshenko regime.
If you do not know, look in the White Book, a report on human rights violations in Ukraine prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
It shows in harrowing detail the murderous nature of the Ukrainian junta to which you have given your support.
There are the children and women brutally burned in Odessa, the thousands of murdered civilians in Mariupol, Slavic, Kramatorsk, Lugansk, Donetsk and other Ukrainian cities. All this blood is on the hands of your protégés.
Unless these massacres happen to your own citizens, it seems you do not notice them.
Nor do you pay attention to the daily shelling and bombing of cities in eastern Ukraine, which includes the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous, and the deliberate destruction of hospitals.
Now Ukrainian neo-Nazis, supported by you, have in fact touched your citizens – killing the hundreds on board flight MH17.
Perhaps it will interest you to hear that American and European advisers are currently training and educating these neo-Nazis, and, moreover, the CIA and possibly your own security services are involved in the planning of punitive strikes on the inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine.
Third, Mr Cameron claims that if President Putin stopped supporting fighters in eastern Ukraine, and allowed Ukrainian authorities to restore order, then the crisis would be over.
Last month, David Cameron published an article in The Sunday Times that, in a series of sweeping accusations, marked a high point in interventions by the West which fuel conflict in Ukraine and, eventually, could drag Russia into a war with the European Union.
Even before this intervention, US and EU politicians had been drumming up the conflict, first by helping neo-fascists in Ukraine into power, who then committed atrocities against the people of eastern Ukraine.
But Cameron’s article stands out as the first time that the head of a leading European power has directly sought war with Russia.
Stirred by such support, Ukrainian troops began their assault on Lugansk and Donetsk, mercilessly destroying those cities and all the citizens within them.
Just as in 1938, when Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain called on European leaders to support the German Nazis in their campaign against the USSR, the present Prime Minister expressed unequivocal support for the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and angrily demanded that his European colleagues “change their attitude to Russia fundamentally”.
He is attempting to lure us into war.
As we seek to avoid a return to the nightmare of global conflict, it is incumbent upon us to answer the allegations and threats made by Cameron.
First, the statement that “the growing weight of evidence points to a clear conclusion: that flight MH17 was blown out of the sky by a surface-to-air missile fired from a rebel-held area” is an outright fallacy.
In reality, evidence grows by the day to confirm President Vladimir Putin’s statement – made just after the crash – that the plane was shot down by the Ukrainian military.
Cameron is surely aware that a Ukrainian Air Force fighter was found near the downed aircraft.
It was reported by the Russian Federation’s Ministry of Defense, and confirmed by the Spanish air traffic controller in Kiev, as well as the local population near the crash site.
Then there is data from just before the crash showing that Ukrainian air forces rapidly activated their fighters in the area.
That this crime was prepared in advance is confirmed further by the fact that flight MH17 was lured off its path and into a military trap prepared by the Ukrainian army.
Moreover, the outrageous fraud that purported to show intercepted communications from rebel leaders discussing the attack on a civilian aircraft clearly indicates that the Security Service of Ukraine – which, as Mr Cameron knows, are controlled by the CIA – were involved in preparing for this crime and covering its tracks.
The fraud has been perpetrated in order to provoke European countries into war with Russia. And Mr Cameron is a central figure in this criminal provocation.
Second, Mr Cameron insults us with the incorrect accusation that the downing of MH17 “is a direct result of Russia destabilising a sovereign state, violating its territorial integrity, backing thuggish militias and training and arming them”.
He adds: “We must turn this moment of outrage into a moment of action.”
I will direct our response to the respected leaders of NATO countries: the truth is that this tragedy is a direct result of your actions.
You and your colleagues have supported a coup d’état and armed rebellion in Ukraine, carried out under the banner of neo-Nazism.
You must be aware of the mass murder of Ukrainian citizens committed by the Poroshenko regime.
If you do not know, look in the White Book, a report on human rights violations in Ukraine prepared by the Russian Foreign Ministry.
It shows in harrowing detail the murderous nature of the Ukrainian junta to which you have given your support.
There are the children and women brutally burned in Odessa, the thousands of murdered civilians in Mariupol, Slavic, Kramatorsk, Lugansk, Donetsk and other Ukrainian cities. All this blood is on the hands of your protégés.
Unless these massacres happen to your own citizens, it seems you do not notice them.
Nor do you pay attention to the daily shelling and bombing of cities in eastern Ukraine, which includes the use of cluster bombs and phosphorous, and the deliberate destruction of hospitals.
Now Ukrainian neo-Nazis, supported by you, have in fact touched your citizens – killing the hundreds on board flight MH17.
Perhaps it will interest you to hear that American and European advisers are currently training and educating these neo-Nazis, and, moreover, the CIA and possibly your own security services are involved in the planning of punitive strikes on the inhabitants of Eastern Ukraine.
Third, Mr Cameron claims that if President Putin stopped supporting fighters in eastern Ukraine, and allowed Ukrainian authorities to restore order, then the crisis would be over.
That may indeed end this
conflict, but it would end in quite different fashion to that which Mr Cameron
expects – with the murder or expulsion of all Ukrainian citizens who disagree
with the neo-Nazi regime.
Fourth, when Mr Cameron claims
that the rebels do not represent the people of Ukraine, he acts as an advocate
for the Ukrainian neo-Nazis, who refuse to consider anyone that disagrees with
them a citizen. In doing so the Prime Minister supports ethnic cleansing and
the mass execution of civilians.
Fifth, it appears that he
has forgotten the lessons of European history.
By provoking a new war with Russia, Mr Cameron reveals an extraordinary arrogance; he considers himself fit to judge other nations, while his false judgments are leading the world down the path to violence.
So did his predecessor. For his part, Blair destroyed Iraq on the false charge that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Then there’s the bombing of Belgrade, and, since Mr Cameron himself participated in it, the destruction of Libya. Millions of innocent citizens paid with their lives for these crimes.
Now the list of victims includes those passengers of flight MH17.
Finally, we agree with Mr Cameron that it is necessary to conduct a full investigation into the crash.
Russia, as he requested, provided a detailed and comprehensive report on the incident, and facilitated the collection of evidence at the crash site.
We hope that Western experts, to whom the evidence was transferred, will now be able to scrutinise the situation objectively.
And perhaps they will also find out why the Ukrainian authorities are destroying all the data from their air-traffic radars.
Perhaps they can take testimony from Ukrainian air traffic controllers, who have thus far been silenced by an order from the Security Services of Ukraine.
Cameron suggests that the future of Russia’s relations with the West depends on how it responds to this tragedy.
The Russian authorities have responded to his demands, calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities and pressing for the start of negotiations. That is where we stand.
Now we can only hope the West comes to its senses.
By provoking a new war with Russia, Mr Cameron reveals an extraordinary arrogance; he considers himself fit to judge other nations, while his false judgments are leading the world down the path to violence.
So did his predecessor. For his part, Blair destroyed Iraq on the false charge that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction.
Then there’s the bombing of Belgrade, and, since Mr Cameron himself participated in it, the destruction of Libya. Millions of innocent citizens paid with their lives for these crimes.
Now the list of victims includes those passengers of flight MH17.
Finally, we agree with Mr Cameron that it is necessary to conduct a full investigation into the crash.
Russia, as he requested, provided a detailed and comprehensive report on the incident, and facilitated the collection of evidence at the crash site.
We hope that Western experts, to whom the evidence was transferred, will now be able to scrutinise the situation objectively.
And perhaps they will also find out why the Ukrainian authorities are destroying all the data from their air-traffic radars.
Perhaps they can take testimony from Ukrainian air traffic controllers, who have thus far been silenced by an order from the Security Services of Ukraine.
Cameron suggests that the future of Russia’s relations with the West depends on how it responds to this tragedy.
The Russian authorities have responded to his demands, calling for the immediate cessation of hostilities and pressing for the start of negotiations. That is where we stand.
Now we can only hope the West comes to its senses.
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