London says antipathy towards Moscow will underpin the ‘‘new approach to security in Europe”
“The age of engagement with Russia is over,” UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss declared during a Wednesday night speech at a dinner in Brussels, wherein Truss urged her counterparts in the US-led military alliance to adopt “a new approach to security in Europe based on resilience, defense and deterrence.”
She went on to assert that Russia’s military offensive in Ukraine had rendered the NATO-Russia Founding Act of 1997 to be “dead,” telling envoys of the US-led military alliance to spurn “false comfort” and prepare for more friction with the Russian Federation.
Her speech followed the imposition of yet more UK sanctions on Moscow, leveled amid widespread moral outcry over the purported atrocities against civilians in the town of Bucha, near Kiev. Ukraine and the Western media, together with intelligence agencies, are blaming Russian forces, but Moscow denies any involvement and says Ukraine is manipulating evidence to provoke greater intervention from the West.
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Thursday’s expulsion of Russia from the UN Human Rights Council and Washington’s authorization of the Lend-Lease Act, a law removing procedural hurdles to the US arming Ukraine to an unprecedented degree, relied heavily on references to the events in Bucha.
