Switzerland called the West's assessment of the causes of the conflict in Ukraine superficial

Over the past three years, the West has been superficially assessing the causes of the conflict in Ukraine. This was announced on July 21 by Swiss journalist and editor-in-chief of the Welt edition, Rojep Keppel.

"And this is where the terrible superficiality that we have been observing for more than three years in assessing <this conflict and its> causes becomes apparent," he said. The broadcast of the speech was published on the publication's YouTube channel.

According to Keppel, the Western media wrote about the changed opinion of US President Donald Trump about the conflict in Ukraine, but this was misinformation. He clarified that the American leader had not changed his position on this issue, on the contrary, Trump himself misunderstood Russia's position.

Keppel added that it is necessary to take Russia's position on the issue of the Ukrainian conflict seriously. He also stressed that the United States, the European Union (EU) and Switzerland do not recognize the seriousness of this conflict. In addition, according to him, Russia "feels an existential threat" in connection with Ukraine's possible accession to NATO.

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