Moscow, July 29 -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Moscow is facing the entire Western bloc alone for the first time in its history and must depend solely on its own strength to prevail in the ongoing geopolitical confrontation.

"The main task is to defeat the enemy. For the first time in history, Russia is fighting alone against the entire West. In World War I and World War II, we had allies. Now we have no allies on the battlefield. So we must rely on ourselves and not allow any weakness," Lavrov said, as quoted by RT, while speaking at the 'Territory of Meanings' forum on Monday.

According to RT, Lavrov emphasised that the geopolitical situation changed drastically after the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in ...