Western calls to isolate Russia and Russian President Vladimir Putin did not find a response in other countries of the world. On July 14, a journalist from the Hong Kong edition wrote about this. South China Morning Post (SCMP) Mohamed Zishan.
“In recent weeks, the Russian leader, far from being isolated, has been in contact with Indonesian President Joko Widodo, recently ousted Sri Lankan President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, and Senegalese President Maki Sall, who is also chairman of the African Union,” he said, stressing that Putin is without problems enlisted the support of developing countries, which helped him to interfere with the course of the West in the situation with Ukraine.
In addition, according to Zishan, at the G20 meeting, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held “heartfelt conversations” with colleagues from China, Turkey, Indonesia, India, Brazil and Argentina, despite attempts by Western representatives to ignore him.
On July 8, German journalist Ulrich Reitz expressed a similar opinion: not all G20 countries see Russia as an aggressor. So, at the summit of foreign ministers in Indonesia, he stressed, Lavrov interacted with both Chinese and Turkish colleagues. Moreover, Turkey, according to the author, is engaged in “politics on a swing” to show its importance. Brazilian President Bolsonaro, clearly guided by his own interests in tropical forests, openly takes the side of the Russian President. The BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) are now trying to establish themselves as a counterweight to the Western G7 G7, Reitz added.
The day before, Yang Xu, a senior researcher at the Institute of International Relations of China, Yang Xu, wrote in an article for the Global Times that the G20 countries are not an association belonging to the West led by the United States, therefore they are not going to turn into an anti-Russian or anti-Chinese association.
The West began to refuse energy resources from the Russian Federation and impose other anti-Russian sanctions against the background of the military operation carried out by Moscow since February 24 to protect the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics (DPR and LPR). Its beginning was preceded by the aggravation of the situation in the region, the appeal of the leadership of the Donbass republics to the Russian Federation with a request for help, and the subsequent recognition by Russia of the independence of the DPR and LPR.
Kyiv has been conducting a military operation against the residents of Donbass, who refused to recognize the results of the coup d’état in Ukraine, since 2014.
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