Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov. Photo: Dazhi Image/Associated Press (file photo)
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been in the war for more than two months, and negotiations between the two countries have made no progress. With many NATO countries sending weapons to Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Monday countered that the shipment of Western weapons to Ukraine means that NATO “” Essentially declaring war on Russia.”
In an interview with Russian state television on Monday, Lavrov spoke of the shipment of Western weapons by NATO countries to Ukraine, which he said represented NATO “effectively declaring war on Russia”.
Lavrov declared that these weapons will become the legitimate targets of the Russian army within the scope of special military operations. And claimed that, in essence, NATO is at war with Russia through a proxy and is arming the proxy. War is war. At the same time, criticized NATO for raising the risk of a nuclear war with Russia.
However, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba responded that Lavrov was only trying to intimidate the world into supporting Ukraine’s actions.