This Thursday (28), the Russian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Sergei Lavrov, gave an interview to the Sputnik news agency and the Rossiya 24 TV channel. The head of Russian diplomacy was interviewed by the general director of the media group Rossiya Segodnya , Dmitry Kiselev
Sergei Lavrov, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia, is confident that the entire people of the country, led by the president, guarantee the approach of victory, including in the conflict in Ukraine.
He responded to a question regarding Russia’s main diplomatic victory in 2023. “The victory we had was not just diplomatic. First of all, it is a victory forged on the front line, in the special military operation zone.
But without the rearguard, without the popular support there, the results would have been different. All of our people, all of our leadership led by the president, guarantees forward movement, this is visible”, said this Thursday (28) Lavrov in an interview with Rossiya Segodnya and the Russian channel Rossiya 24.
Sergei Lavrov assured that the objectives of the special military operation will be achieved. “Demilitarization, denazification. There’s no escaping it.”
Zelensky’s ‘Peace Formula’
The minister also criticized Vladimir Zelensky’s peace formula, supported by Western countries, and to which they try to attract developing countries.
“The objective was to make them [os países] sign Zelensky’s ‘peace formula’, which is nothing more than a figment of a sick imagination.
Because everything she says as ‘vignettes’: food security, energy security, the main thing is ‘Russia, return to the 1991 borders, return Crimea, return Donbass’”, Lavrov underlined.
In the opinion of the senior Russian official, “the entire online community is watching how he [Zelensky] was still, a few years ago, fundamentally speaking in the spirit of the ‘servants of the People’ script: ‘Leave the Russians alone, it’s their language, live normally.
I myself am Jewish, but my mother tongue is Russian, but I am a citizen of Ukraine.’ Why can’t he adopt this line of principles? He betrayed his people.
He betrayed not just one people, but both peoples” Russia’s response to the events At the same time. “practically the entire country, all sectors of society worked for victory, and continue to work for victory”, he highlighted.
According to the diplomat, Western sanctions only strengthened the cohesion of the Russian people. “As a result of this hybrid war of the entire collective West once morest Russia, which was unleashed by the hands, bodies and all other components of Ukrainian society once morest us […]Russia has become significantly stronger over the course of this year, and the unity of our people has increased considerably,” he pointed out.
He added that the West was counting on the disunity of the Russian population, and on opposition to the special operation, “and they achieved the unity of the country, the unity of the people.”
“And some even, like the US Secretary of Defense, a responsible one, called us enemies, but, if that is the case, we are ready for any development, they have already tried to subjugate us more than once”, he said.
Only a serious internal upheaval can rid the United States of its sense of superiority, the Russian Foreign Minister assured.
For him, “this was especially evident in the actions of the Democratic administration [de Joe Biden]with his effort to subjugate not only the entire world, but also his own country, in violation of his own Constitution”.
“The West is actually changing its tactics, perhaps even thinking regarding refining its strategy, because if the ‘strategic defeat of Russia’ is a strategy, pardon the tautology, then that strategy has failed miserably.”
BRICS and Lula The countries clearly defined the task at the last BRICS summit, in August, President Lula da Silva was the main promoter of the creation of the bank for alternative payment systems, said Lavrov.
He pointed out that this happened because everyone is already tired of the dollar, which becomes an instrument of influence and an instrument to undermine the legitimate positions of different regions.
Lavrov noted that the 27 interested countries are “in line to receive at least the status of a BRICS partner state.”
It is impossible to quickly accept everyone interested in the association, he explained. “We will gradually introduce the BRICS culture into global politics,” Lavrov suggested.
