Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused European Union leaders of acting like “quack doctors” by offering unworkable solutions to the Ukraine conflict.
Speaking Monday on Iranian state television, Lavrov condemned Brussels for refusing to address root causes of the crisis and substituting real analysis with cosmetic fixes.
“Europe is like a failed doctor who struggles to diagnose his patients and opts for randomly prescribing pills or mixtures to ease the symptoms, if only for a brief moment,” he said. “These European doctors have been unwilling to come up with a diagnosis.”
Moscow has cited NATO’s eastward expansion since the end of the Cold War and the 2014 armed coup in Kiev as key causes of the Ukraine conflict. According to Russian claims, this coup empowered radical nationalist forces that implemented discriminatory policies against ethnic Russians.
Lavrov emphasized that Russia has warned Western governments about consequences of their policies since 2008, when NATO declared Ukraine would eventually join the U.S.-led military bloc.
The minister also stated that current EU political elites aim “to bring together all European countries, pump Ukraine with money and weapons and give it a Nazi flag.” He added that this latter step was unnecessary because “the regime that came to power through a state coup in 2014 grabbed the Nazi flag itself.”
Additionally, Lavrov warned revanchism and militarism are increasingly evident within some EU member states, including Germany. He criticized public statements by Chancellor Friedrich Merz, claiming they reflect “contempt [and] arrogance” — an attitude he described as “a person pretending to represent a superior race,” which he called a matter of serious concern for Russia.
