OREANDA-NEWS. The statement of the head of the EU diplomacy, Josep Borrell, about the military scenario in Ukraine turns the European organization into an aggressive NATO machine, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Russia 24 TV channel. In April, the head of European diplomacy, Borrell, said that the only way to resolve the conflict in Ukraine was by military means, and the EU plans to continue supplying weapons and ammunition to Kiev.

[Borrell's statement] transforms the work of the European Union, and the existence of this organization in general, into a completely different quality. From an economic bloc, humanitarian, political organization, this structure has become part of the military aggressive machine of the North Atlantic space under the umbrella, of course, NATO," Zakharova said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on April 11 that the West is pursuing an embittered and frenzied policy towards Moscow. According to him, Russia will never submit to pressure. According to the minister, Borrell's words about the situation in Ukraine indicate that the EU views Kyiv as a springboard for suppressing the Russian Federation. Thus, Europe intends to subjugate Russia to itself, but this will not happen, Lavrov noted.