Interfax: Western support for Ukrainian coup led to collapse of international law – Peskov

MOSCOW. March 7 (Interfax) – Russian President’s Press Secretary has called the actions of Western countries over Ukraine “a triumph of double standards.”

“All in all, what we see now happening in and around Ukraine is such a triumph of lawlessness, a triumph of cynicism and a triumph of the collapse of international law, a triumph of double standards,” Peskov said in an interview on the Sunday Night with Vladimir Solovyov program, a portion of which was shown on the Rossiya-24 television channel.

“Our Western partners recognized the legitimacy of those who now refer to themselves as the leaders of Ukraine, despite the fact that these people came with the support of those who organized the coup,” the president’s press secretary said.

“They rushed to recognize them as legitimate, insist on their legitimacy while completely denying the right of anyone else in Ukraine to take some action at their discretion,” Peskov said.

“In the west and in the east – these are all the people of a united Ukraine, but parts of this people have absolutely been denied the right to self-determination, the right to a legitimate decision, the right to some action in defense of their own dignity and personal safety,” he said.

Regretfully, “the West is turning a blind eye to this,” he added.

“And to our great regret, despite all the attempts by our president, his readiness to explain the Russian position effectively on a daily basis, we are still facing a wall of misunderstanding. This is quite sad, and more importantly, it is very bad from the viewpoint of further possible consequences,” Peskov said.