Lavrov accuses the West of fighting “directly” against Russia in Ukraine
With their support for Ukraine, the Western powers have entered into a direct war against Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. “You can call it whatever you want, but they are fighting us, they are fighting us directly, we call it a hybrid war, but that doesn’t change anything,” Lavrov said at a news conference after his speech at the United Nations General Assembly podium. US President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he wants to avoid a direct confrontation with Russia, another nuclear power, and will not send US troops into the ground. His government has also distanced itself from the Ukrainian attacks on Russia. But Lavrov pointed to the billions of dollars in weapons that the West has provided to Kiev since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February last year, as well as the support of US and British intelligence services and the presence of Western military advisers in the conflict. The West is “de facto fighting against us with the hands and corpses of Ukrainians,” Lavrov accused in a long press conference after his speech at the UN in which he outlined the abuses inflicted on Russia by the United States and the European Union. , mostly. “I think everyone here who pays at least a little attention to the situation in Ukraine knows very well that the Americans, the British and others are fighting primarily by supplying more and more weapons,” he claimed.