CAIRO. April 12 (Interfax) - Russia in contacts with Turkey and other countries calls on refraining from steps that fuel the militaristic ambitions of the Ukrainian authorities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday.
"We urge all responsible countries we talk to, Turkey is one of them, to analyze the situation, to analyze the perpetual militant statements by the Kyiv regime," Lavrov said at a press conference in Cairo, when asked by Interfax to comment on the reports on the supply of Turkish attack drones to Ukraine.
"And we are cautioning them against fueling these militaristic tendencies," Lavrov said.
"The Kyiv authorities, the new Kyiv administration, the putschists, carried out aggression against their own people in 2014 under the influence of such encouragements, after an anti-constitutional coup was organized," he said.
"Therefore, when officials from the Zelensky administration now say that Kyiv isn't planning anything in Donbas because Kyiv cannot fight against its own people, it's not true. After the revolution of dignity, which was really an anti-constitutional putsch, Kyiv attacked its own people and has been waging war against their people ever since, declaring them terrorists," Lavrov said. "Residents of Donbas did not attack anyone in the rest of Ukraine's territory, they just asked to leave them alone and let them see what was happening, when the neo-Nazis took power in Kyiv, who immediately spoke against the rights of the Russian-speaking people of their own country," he said.
"I do hope this story is remembered, including in those countries that are discussing with Ukraine the possibilities of supplying this or that military equipment to it," Lavrov said.
The countries that encouraged the Ukrainian leadership's anti-Russian sentiments in 2014 "haven't learned lessons" from those events, Lavrov said.