The Kremlin will go to everything to prevent "strategic defeat" in Ukraine - Lavrov
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in an interview with a conservative American journalist Taerra Carlson on Thursday, December 5, said that the use of an Orishnik hypersonic missile in Ukraine was an attempt to make the West understand that the Russian Federation was ready to use any means To prevent "strategic defeat" of Moscow. Reuters writes about it.
The strike of the Oryshnik rocket on the Dnieper last month, according to the Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin, was a test of a rocket, which, he said, could not be confused. He also threatened that, if necessary, Russia may put into operation other similar missile development in "combat conditions".
"Link is that you, I mean the US and allies of the US who also supply this long-range weapon to the Kiev regime, should understand that we will be ready to apply any means to not allow them to succeed in what They call Russia's strategic defeat, "Lavrov said. According to him, Washington fights for preserving his hegemony over the world, over any country, any region, any continent. "We are fighting for our legitimate interests of security," he added.
In his interview in English, Lavrov also said that the West allegedly refused to discuss safety guarantees for Russia during weeks and months before a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. At the same time, 2022, when Russian troops accumulated on the border with Ukraine, Western leaders tried to refuse Moscow from invasion. French President Emmanuel Macron spoke to Putin three weeks before the invasion.
After which he stated that he received the assurance that Russia would not take any action that would make the situation worse. Lavrov, however, in the comments of Carlson, noted that Ukraine lost its opportunity to maintain its territorial integrity, twice dismissed the proposals for the agreement - once before the start of the full -scale war, and then at the negotiations in April 2022 in Istanbul. "We have not started this war.
We have sent a warning for years that NATO's pushing is getting closer and closer to our borders," he said. During the 80-minute conversation, Lavrov also advised the event to give up the idea that the Russian Federation has no so-called red lines. "These red lines move again and again - this is a very serious mistake," he said.