A worrying call received by the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov on the night of February 24 last year. In fact, someone informed him that Russian President Vladimir Putin had just ordered the invasionUkraine. The news completely surprised Lavrov. This was revealed by the Financial Times in a lengthy investigative report that explains how it is not uncommon for Putin to remain in charge Fly to foreign policy plans. A few hours later, after Putin announced on television the so-called “military special operation” in Ukraine, a dozen oligarchs gathered in the Kremlin to demand explanations from the Russian president. At one point, the business and financial daily writes, one of them asked Lavrov for an explanation of the fateful decision to invade Ukraine. But the minister could not have given any explanations: the other officials of the presidential staff gathered in the palace knew less than he did. “Putin has three advisers,” Lavrov is said to have replied to the oligarch. “Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great”.
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