News - Russia MFA spox: EU wants to spread its destructive influence in South Caucasus by sending money to Armenia

By directing 10 million euros to the armed forces of Armenia, the European Union (EU) expects to spread its destructive influence in the South Caucasus. Maria Zakharova, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA), stated this during Wednesday’s weekly press briefing. "We have repeatedly pointed out the fact that the EU has lost its peaceful basis and has no peacemaking potential that it can use. There were times when the EU, at least in words, aspired to some kind of peaceful, stable situation, tried to strengthen something, conduct negotiations. Now it is obvious what decisions are made, what documents are signed. The EU has adopted a course of militarization, confrontation, and it is not serving the interests of its citizens, but the interests of the US and NATO," said Zakharova. "Behind the plans of the European Union to allocate 10 million euros to support the armed forces of Armenia, of course, there are geopolitical calculations of the EU to spread its destructive influence on this region; that is, in Transcaucasia [i.e., the South Caucasus]. We are sure that, it seems to me, it is even obvious, and it can be seen directly from the example of Ukraine, that the so-called ‘European Peace Facility’ is not about peace, stability, security. It is about war, provoking countries, bloodshed," added the Russian MFA spox.