NEW YORK — Russia‘s top diplomat accused the United States of acting like a dictator toward countries that threatened its political and economic dominance during his United Nations General Assembly address.
“Washington erected themselves into an almost-envoy for God on Earth,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the U.N. Saturday through a translator. “Name a country where Washington interfered by force and, as a result of that, life improved.”
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Lavrov spoke at the U.N. days after Russian President Vladimir Putin announced he was mobilizing approximately 300,000 army reservists with training and experience for Ukraine and threatened nuclear escalation after Kyiv’s successful counteroffensive campaign.
The foreign minister criticized Western sanctions and dismissed concerns regarding referenda in Ukraine’s eastern Russia-controlled Donbas region, as well as Kherson in the south, on whether they should officially become part of the Russian Federation, as “fits.”
“People living there are basically only reacting to what was said to them by the head of the Kyiv regime,” he said, referring to democratically elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling pro-Russian separatists in Donbas last year to leave.
Lavrov also warned the U.S. it was “playing with fire” by interfering in China–Taiwan tensions, contending the next objective of “the collective West,” led by Washington, is “subjugating” Indo-Pacific countries after NATO’s “spread” to the east.
Lavrov arrived late to a U.N. Security Council meeting convened Thursday to discuss the “maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine” and “fight impunity.” Lavrov departed shortly after delivering remarks that included false allegations against Kyiv and Zelensky.
“Impunity reflects what has been going on that country since 2014, when national radical forces, open Russophobes, and neo-Nazis came to power then as a result of an armed coup with direct support of Western countries,” Lavrov said. “Intentional fermenting of this conflict by the collective West remains unpunished. Of course, you won’t punish yourselves.”
One day prior, Zelensky, with permission from the General Assembly, addressed the body via video link. He made an appeal to demand “just punishment” for crimes he alleges Russia has committed against Ukraine’s borders and its people.
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