Lavrov: The world is moving towards a multipolar order.
The Russian foreign minister has said that the United States wants to keep the world monopolistic forever, while the world is moving in the opposite direction.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday (February 28th) that the situation was moving in the opposite direction to US demands, citing US efforts to maintain a global polar order.
“The United States has publicly stated that it wants to keep the world monopolistic forever, while in fact the situation is moving in the opposite direction,” Lavrov was quoted as saying by the Russian embassy on Twitter. “The world is multipolar.”
“The world wants the world to continue the war, because they think it will erode and the Russian army and Russian defense industry will be eroded, but this is an illusion,” he said.
Russia ordered a military strike on Ukraine on February 24. This development came days after Moscow formally recognized the independence of the Donetsk and Luhansk republics in eastern Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has said his military operation is aimed at “demilitarizing Ukraine” and “de-Naziizing” the country.
Russia has also said that Ukraine has not fulfilled its obligations under the Minsk agreements reached in 2014 and 2015 to resolve the dispute between separatists and Kiev.
Hours after the Russian invasion, Ukraine announced that it had cut off all diplomatic ties with the country. Western countries have repeatedly imposed sanctions on most of Moscow’s financial institutions, energy sector and political elite in response to Russian military action. Western countries have sent many weapons to support Ukraine.
Sergei Lavrov said the Russian armed forces would consider Western weapons legitimate targets.
