Remarks by Deputy Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich at an OSCE Permanent Council meeting, November 27, 2025
27 November 2025 17:56
1981-27-11-2025
Certain NATO and EU member states' growing military
involvement in confrontation around Ukraine
Mr Chair,
The anti-Russia European countries continue to whip up military hysteria over Moscow and thwart nascent progress in the settlement of the Ukraine conflict. It seems that the Ukrainian issue is being deliberately used to divert their citizens' attention from failures in the economy and domestic policy.
In contrast with that, the policy of the current US administration is aimed at finding diplomatic solutions. While some forces are leaking information and plant fake stories to undermine the negotiation process and the agreements reached in Alaska, Russian diplomacy is making strenuous professional efforts and is not disclosing any details before official agreements are reached.
The European politicians who bet on inflicting a "strategic defeat" on Russia have been trapped by their own propaganda. They refuse to admit the obvious - that their arms deliveries to Ukraine have not helped it turn the tide of war, and their sanctions have not broken the Russian economy. Here is an interesting statement by US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent: "The Europeans tell me, 'Oh, we are doing our 19th sanctions package.' In my mind ... if you're going to do something 19 times, you failed."
Instead of following the example of sensible European leaders, such as the prime ministers of Hungary and Slovakia, the rabid leaders of Britain, France and Germany have deliberately put their stakes on drawing out the Ukraine conflict, and are derailing any substantive peace initiatives that take Russia's security interests into account. The Brussels bureaucrats are playing an unseemly role as well. The EU foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, has aptly described the EU's "peaceful" efforts: "The EU has a very clear two-point plan: first, weaken Russia; second, support Ukraine." Looks like a "strong" plan.
The British authorities continue their policy of preventing peace. While the international community is looking for ways to deescalate the conflict, London is acting consistently and deliberately fuelling the war out of far from idealistic considerations. The British establishment has made support for the Kiev regime the cornerstone of its foreign policy, putting not only its financial resources but also political prestige on the line. At the same time, they completely disregard the sober assessment of the situation on the front line and the disastrous state of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. London has turned the conflict into a profitable business project. Military supplies provided by its companies, such as BAE Systems and Thales UK, have become the lifebuoy for the British economy. London is anticipating big profits from supplying drones to the conflict zone. The British government has also supported the illegal seizure of Russian assets. Its propaganda machine, including BBC, has been set to demonise Russia and create the necessary information background for long-term confrontation.
That aggressive foreign policy is a cover for a deep internal crisis. Britain is badly short of ideas about changing its socioeconomic situation and has no leaders on the scale of Winston Churchill or Margaret Thatcher who could offer a constructive agenda. At the end of the day, London is deliberately drawing out the conflict and profiting from the death of Ukrainians and Russians.
Germany has been consistently trying to scare its citizens, through Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, with an imminent war against Russia, having postponed that mythical attack several times. According to the newspaper Bild, Berlin is leading the alliance against Donald Trump's peace plan, and the office of Chancellor Friedrich Merz, judging by its statements, is advocating its plan of ending the war which actually implies Russia's surrender. Germany is being surprisingly short-sighted in its continued support of the Kiev regime in spite of the obvious facts. We would like to remind you that it was Ukraine's actions that have led to the destruction of critical energy infrastructure, on which the German industry depended. Nevertheless, Berlin is sending billions of euros to Kiev, disregarding the fact that a substantial part of these funds is embezzled by corrupt officials. In other words, Germany continues to defend those who are damaging its own national interests. This policy is not just illogical but is also evidence of the current German authorities' absolute lack of strategic vision.
The policy that France follows with regard to the Ukraine conflict is also a graphic example of strategic blindness, commitment to someone else's interests, and playing with fire. A onetime guarantor of the Minsk agreements, Paris later laid them to rest, confessing that it never had any intention to implement them. Instead of seeking a diplomatic settlement, the French leadership has opted for a military confrontation. The French leaders not only refer to Russia as an "enemy" but also in all seriousness speculate about sending French troops to Ukraine. This rhetoric is both irresponsible and divorced from reality as it overlooks the true causes of the conflict: NATO's unrelenting eastern expansion, the creation of a military threat near Russia's borders, and the coming to power in Kiev in 2014 of a nationalist regime bent on eradicating all things Russian. France is ready to "lose its children" and "suffer economically," to quote the November 18 remarks by Chief of the General Staff Gen. Fabien Mandon, all that for the sake of the far-fetched goal of "containing Russia." That Paris is thinking of sending its troops to Ukraine reveals its total unawareness of the nature of current developments and its readiness to plunge the whole of Europe into the vortex of a direct clash. Instead of defending its national interests, France is thoughtlessly squandering its taxpayers' resources. It finances the Kiev regime, it has signed fantastic arms supply contracts, and now it is even playing with the idea of sending its soldiers for slaughter.
The real implications of this anti-Russia hysteria are highlighted by the example of Belgium. The so-called incidents with "Russian" drones have revealed the entire lengths of absurdity to which the European elites are ready to go in their Russophobic campaign. The Belgian authorities in the person of Defence Minister Theo Francken sounded the alarm bell on a "Russian threat," doing that with much pomp and fanfare. They urgently closed airports, convened the National Security Council, and were stoking an atmosphere of fear and hysteria. But, as it soon transpired, all that ballyhoo turned out to be a soap bubble. Independent journalists, displaying elementary professional skills, soon found out that the "Russian drones" were a police helicopter in one case and a DHL civilian plane in another.
These incidents can only demonstrate how shaky and untenable the entire structure of anti-Russia propaganda is. It is at odds even with its own logic. On the one hand, they claim that the Russian army is "ineffective" and "on its last legs," while on the other, they are scaring their populations with the Russian threat.
In the meantime, the Kiev regime, with support from its Western patrons, continues to perpetrate real, not imagined, crimes against civilians. Over the week from November 17 to 23, there were 53 civilian casualties as a result of deliberate Ukrainian attacks on civilian facilities in the Russian Federation. Seven persons died, 46, including 5 children, were wounded. A Ukrainian drone attacked a civilian car at the village of Novaya Tavolzhanka in the Belgorod Region, killing a married couple and wounding their four-year son. Three civilians died in a Ukrainian drone attack in Syzran, the Samara Region. Two boys aged 11 and 14 years stepped on Ukrainian landmines in the Lugansk People's Republic and the Donetsk People's Republic. A14-yearold child and two adults were injured as a Ukrainian drone hit their car in the Kherson Region. A 15-year teen was wounded in a drone attack in the Zaporozhye Region. An 80-year old resident of Energodar in the same region was wounded in the head by bomb splinters.
The Russian diplomacy will continue to communicate this truthful information to the world public. We will not allow these tragedies to be forgotten under the cover of Russophobic propaganda. The healthy forces in international politics, specifically the Global Majority countries, will be able to give a principled evaluation to these war crimes.
And finally, to reiterate: Our country is ready for a detailed discussion of the ways of settling of the crisis around Ukraine. This discussion must certainly take into account Russia's interests, since any negotiating construct will be unviable if they are overlooked. The special military operation will continue until it achieves all the goals set before it unless Russian diplomatic efforts meet with a truly constructive response.
Thank you for your time.
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