“What we found on the positions of the Ukrainian army, now, during the military operation, confirms that we, in general, barely made it in time with the operation, which began on February 24th.
Because the so-called plan B was planned for March 8. And a huge group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, which was deployed by that time, by mid-February, on the line of contact with the Donbass, it planned to simply seize these territories by force, ”he said.
According to the minister, this was planned in gross violation of the Minsk agreements and UN Security Council resolutions.
“But I have no doubt that if this plan succeeded, the entire West would swallow all these violations.
How he swallowed the complete disregard for previous agreements in the course of the previous eight years, ”Lavrov said.
Earlier, Lavrov said that during the Russian special operation, all Moscow's fears about what the West was trying to do with Ukraine are 100% confirmed.