Shillong, March 5: After over a year of war between Russia and Ukraine, the Foreign Minister of the former said that ‘Moscow was not the aggressor”.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, while speaking at the Raisina Dialogue in Delhi, accused Ukraine of launching a war against his country by using Ukrainian people.
Lavrov accused the West of having double standards and accused them of raking up the Ukraine issue during the G20 Foreign Ministers’ meeting but held no discussions over the situation in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan or Yugoslavia.
The Russian Foreign Minister said that “US do not remember when Serbia was bombed. Joe Biden, a senator at that time, bragged that he promoted that approach. When Iraq was ruined as a state, a few years later, Tony Blair said it was a mistake. You think the US has the right to declare a threat just like they did to other countries, but no one questions it for that.”
Lavrov added that Joe Biden and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg have publicly stated that Russia must be defeated on the battlefield.
