One group of bastards endorses another.
Myanmar’s military junta expressed support on Friday for Russia’s attack on Ukraine, even as a group of officials from Myanmar’s shadow civilian government took the opposite position.
“In the case of Russia and Ukraine, Russia has done its part to maintain its sovereignty, and I think it is the right thing to do,” the spokesman for the junta, Maj. Gen. Zaw Min Tun, told The New York Times by telephone. “Russia is also a big country among world powers and is showing that it also plays a main role in the balance sheet of maintaining world peace.”
Duwa Lashi La, the acting president of the National Unity Government in Myanmar, said on Twitter that those in the government “strongly condemn the unprovoked attack on Ukraine that undermines the UN charter and international law.”
“We pray for the people of Ukraine as they face catastrophic suffering from this unjustified invasion,” he wrote.
The National Unity Government is made up of a group of deposed officials who banded together after generals in Myanmar seized power in a coup in February 2021.
Since the coup, the generals have cultivated closer ties with Moscow. Russia is a major supplier of arms to the junta, and senior military officers from each country visited their counterparts several times last year. In June, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, the leader of Myanmar’s junta, traveled to Russia to meet with the country’s defense minister.
The junta is also courting Russia to invest in sectors like fuel, natural gas, cement and electric public transit in Myanmar.
