Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview broadcast on Thursday (Dec 5), said the use of a hypersonic missile in the Ukraine war sought to make the West understand that Moscow was ready to use any means to ensure no "strategic defeat" would be inflicted on Moscow.
Russia 's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov speaks to the media as he attends the 31st Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Ministerial Council in Ta'Qali, Malta on Dec 5, 2024. Russia n Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov , in an interview broadcast on Thursday , said the use of a hypersonic missile in the Ukraine war sought to make the West understand that Moscow was ready to use any means to ensure no"strategic defeat" would be inflicted on Moscow.
"They fight for keeping their hegemony over the world, on any country, any region, any continent. We fight for our legitimate security interests."Speaking in English, Lavrov said the West had refused to discuss upholding security guarantees for Russia in the weeks and months before the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine, called a"special military operation" in Moscow.
"We did not start this war. We had been for years and years and years sending warnings that pushing NATO closer and closer to our borders is going to create a problem," he said. "If they are following the logic which some Westerners have been pronouncing lately, that they don't believe that Russia has red lines, they announced their red lines, these red lines are being moved again and again, this is a very serious mistake," he said.
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