Afghanistan, June 30 -- Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said the West's attempts to defeat Russia using Ukraine as a proxy will fail, as past efforts have.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused the "collective West" of attempting to engineer a strategic defeat of Russia through its support for Ukraine, asserting that such efforts have failed in the past and will not succeed now.
Lavrov made these remarks during a meeting with Kyrgyz Foreign Minister Jeenbek Kulubayev, according to a report by Russian state news agency TASS on Sunday, June 29. He claimed that Western powers had reignited hostilities against Moscow by backing what he described as the "Nazi regime in Kyiv."
"We are witnessing an unprecedented standoff against t...