Lavrov on the West’s desire to defeat Russia: if you want on the battlefield, your will. “This is the entire description of those characters who now rule Ukraine and on whom the West is counting in order to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia,” Lavrov said.

As President Vladimir Putin noted, Western states began to understand that it was impossible to inflicted a strategic Defeat on Russia. The foreign minister was speaking at a press conference dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the coup in Kyiv.