Mexico City. In the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Gautier Mignot, the European Union ambassador to Mexico, commented that no country or other factors have prompted Ukraine to defend itself. He also referred to the substitution of Russian gas by the 27 members.
He said it in Tamaulipas on Monday. On Tuesday, the Russian embassy in Mexico responded to him from his Facebook account: “The cost of this “independence” of 900,000 million euros and European consumers have already begun to notice the effects of prices and inflation.”
“Who are the beneficiaries of the energy crisis in Europe? United States,” she posted.
The European diplomat reacted yesterday through a video.
“In 20 years, Russia has invaded Ukraine twice, it has invaded Georgia, it has fomented separatism not only in those countries but also in Moldova, it has supported the Belarusian dictatorship to suppress democratic demonstrations and it is because of this permanent aggressive behavior and Also due to the trauma of Soviet domination that several Central and Eastern European countries have requested their entry into NATO, it is not NATO that wanted to expand, it was a reaction to the Russian threat and among those countries was Ukraine”, Mignot said in Twitter.
The ambassador recalled that the European Union wanted economic and energy interdependence to generate a cooperative attitude in Russia, however, the response obtained was contempt, aggressiveness and the brutal and illegal invasion of Ukraine.
In the afternoon, the Russian embassy reacted to the video of the European Union ambassador.
From Facebook, he replied: “What efforts has (the EU) made to achieve a peaceful solution? Have they supplied weapons? Where are your calls to respect the Minsk agreements?
Verbal battle between the EU and Russia, in Mexico.
