The Russian foreign minister was ridiculed for claiming at an international conference that ‘Russia was a victim of the war in Ukraine’.
According to Archyde.com, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at the ‘Raysina Dialogue’, a geopolitical and global economic forum hosted by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of India and the Observatory Research Foundation in New Delhi, India on the 3rd (local time), saying, “We will end the war in Ukraine.” It is a war started by (the Western camp) using the people of Ukraine to target Russia.” Before he might even finish his words, laughter erupted from the audience. Minister Lavrov hesitated and stuttered before saying, “The war in Ukraine has affected various Russian policies, including energy policy.”
Russia, which invaded Ukraine on February 24 last year in the name of a “special military operation,” is putting responsibility for the war on the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). However, even in India, which has been increasing Russian crude oil imports despite Western energy sanctions once morest Russia, this claim was dismissed as a laughing stock.
“Russia will no longer depend on any Western partner,” Lavrov said. “We will not allow them to blow up the pipeline once more.” It is a reiteration of the claim that the West is responsible for the North Stream gas pipeline explosion in the Baltic Sea in September last year.
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