During his speech, the minister recalled that the current Ukrainian authorities used the Minsk agreements to gain time to prepare for the conflict, although Vladimir Zelensky signed the document.

“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. If you want to go to the battlefield, it’s your choice,” Lavrov said.

As President Vladimir Putin noted, Western states began to understand that it was impossible to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia.