Lithuanian Foreign Minister: EU is partially responsible for annexation of the Crimea
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius believes that the EU bears partial responsibility for the annexation of the Crimea by Russia and the war in the east of Ukraine. According to him, the European Union, and the West could have reacted more quickly and done more.
"We are not consistently consistent, we reacted inappropriately. Sometimes our reaction is too late, sometimes too weak, "he said.
Linkevičius believes that the West has chosen a comfortable position, the "golden mean," for itself. But in this case there is no middle ground, because the war continues, he stated.
"If Russia stops fighting, the war will end. But if the fighting is stopped by Ukraine, then, so to speak, ‘Ukraine will end.’ This will be the end of Ukraine. Therefore, the situation is different,” the minister said.