MOSCOW, June 24 (RIA Novosti) — The European Union Council’s report on Ukraine contains opinions that are biased, politically motivated and far from reality, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement Tuesday.
“Once again, we have to state that Brussels' assessment of the events in Ukraine is biased, politically motivated and far from reality,” the ministry said.
“The EU partners continue their persistent attempts to put the crisis in Ukraine into the narrow framework of a picture that certain capitals to the west of Kiev are laboriously trying to paint. What other explanation can be given [to the fact that] the EU council’s ‘conclusions' fail to mention that dozens of children were killed during the ‘anti-terror operation,’ that thousands of refugees flock to the Russian Federation from Ukraine and that the Ukrainian military violated the Russian state border on numerous occasions?” the statement reads, all the while expressing outrage that Brussels also failed to mention the outrageous attempt to storm the Russian Embassy in Kiev.
According to the ministry, EU continues to label the population of Ukraine’s southeast as “pro-Russia separatists,” turning a blind eye on the real reasons for the Russian troops to be present along the Russian-Ukrainian border, persistently voiced by Moscow.
The ministry called on the EU to “revise its approaches” if their intentions to play an important and positive role in resolving the Ukrainian crisis are genuine.
On June 23, EU Foreign Affairs Council met in Luxembourg to discuss the proposal of Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko for a peace plan. Following the talks the council circulated its conclusions on Ukraine in a document published online. The statement focuses on Kiev’s losses in course of its military operation launched in mid-April, drawing the curtain on the rest of the damage incurred throughout the special operation.
The European Council’s report comes shortly after a similar document from the UN on the situation in Ukraine was presented by the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights last week.
Moscow immediately condemned the report for its “double standards,” as it did not contain an objective assessment of the criminal activities conducted by Kiev which is carrying out a punitive operation against the peaceful population and ignores the death of civilians resulting from the violent crackdown.
