“In the context of growing mutual understanding with the countries of the Global East and Global South regarding the image of the future, it seems natural that the plans of the Western minority to isolate Russia, to create a kind of “cordon sanitaire” around us, have failed,” he said.
Lavrov noted that the initiators of the anti-Russian policy themselves are forced to admit this, but this does not mean that they have exhausted the potential for hostile actions. According to the minister, the West will continue to increase pressure on Moscow and its allies.
“Washington and its allies do not give up dreams of inflicting a strategic defeat on us. True, lately... in the West they are no longer talking about their victory, but about how to prevent Putin from winning,” the diplomat noted.
The British television channel Sky News earlier, after an interview with Russian Ambassador Andrei Kelin in London, admitted that his words about the situation around Ukraine and the Russian economy are true.
The ambassador spoke about the shift of the front line in Ukraine towards the West and about Kyiv's difficulties in finding resources for its military machine. At the same time, Russia, according to the diplomat, has survived Western sanctions, and the domestic military-industrial complex has all the necessary capabilities.