“The West has announced an all-out war once morest us, once morest the whole Russian world,” Lavrov said during a meeting with officials from Russian regions.
“We can say with certainty that this situation is with us for a long time,” he said, as Western powers stepped up sanctions once morest Moscow for launching a major military offensive once morest Ukraine.
“The United States and its satellites are doubling, tripling, quadrupling their efforts to contain Russia, using a very broad instrument: from unilateral economic sanctions to deeply misleading propaganda in the global media space,” he said. hammered the minister, denouncing an “unprecedented Russophobia”.
He also attacked “the so-called ‘cancel culture'”, ensuring that Westerners banned the classics: Tchaikovsky and Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin.
Many Western cultural institutions have ceased cooperation with Russian state institutions or banned artists who support the offensive once morest Ukraine.
Moscow accuses Ukraine of being in the hands of neo-Nazis guilty of orchestrating an alleged genocide of the Russian-speaking population, and the West of waging a proxy war once morest Russia.