The day after the attack, the Kremlin called the explosion a new “escalation of tensions” In a region undermined by crises, Russian diplomacy calls on all parties “to the restraint”. “The region itself is in an explosive situation. […] And every incident like this has the potential to be the trigger.” of a wider conflagration in the area, warned Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov in a press briefing. He also called for the opening of“an absolutely thorough investigation, in order to establish the causes, the circumstances, and to identify those who are behind these explosions”.
Russian diplomacy has on its side “strongly condemned the unprecedented attack against friendly Lebanon and its citizens, which constitutes a flagrant violation of its sovereignty”. “We consider what happened as a new act of hybrid war against Lebanon”castigated the spokeswoman for Russian diplomacy, Maria Zakharova, assuring that “the perpetrators of this attack […] were apparently deliberately seeking to foment a large-scale armed confrontation in order to provoke a major war in the Middle East.”The diplomat also denounced “irresponsible actions” to “extremely dangerous consequences” in a context of “growing tensions” between Israel and Lebanon, against the backdrop of the Gaza war.
