07:18Mandatory credit: Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the aspirations of US President Joe Biden's administration to inflict a 'strategic defeat on Russia' as a 'failed idea', in his speech at the 10th Primakov Readings international forum in Moscow on Wednesday.
"The aspirations and tendencies that can be seen in the practical policy of the Biden administration are not new. Whether it is the obviously failed idea of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia, or the naive desire to simultaneously restrain Moscow and Beijing, and now the Islamic Republic of Iran," said the Minister.
Lavrov also underscored that countries in Western Europe 'could become one of the centres of the emerging multipolar world order', as soon as they ‘come to their senses and realise that the course they are following under Washington's dictates is a dead end," he continued.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow, and has since supplied tens of billions of dollars in military support to the Kiev regime.
Lavrov calls Biden administration's aspirations to inflict 'strategic defeat on Russia' a 'failed idea'
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the aspirations of US President Joe Biden's administration to inflict a 'strategic defeat on Russia' as a 'failed idea', in his speech at the 10th Primakov Readings international forum in Moscow on Wednesday.
"The aspirations and tendencies that can be seen in the practical policy of the Biden administration are not new. Whether it is the obviously failed idea of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia, or the naive desire to simultaneously restrain Moscow and Beijing, and now the Islamic Republic of Iran," said the Minister.
Lavrov also underscored that countries in Western Europe 'could become one of the centres of the emerging multipolar world order', as soon as they ‘come to their senses and realise that the course they are following under Washington's dictates is a dead end," he continued.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow, and has since supplied tens of billions of dollars in military support to the Kiev regime.
Mandatory credit: Primakov Institute of World Economy and International Relations
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov described the aspirations of US President Joe Biden's administration to inflict a 'strategic defeat on Russia' as a 'failed idea', in his speech at the 10th Primakov Readings international forum in Moscow on Wednesday.
"The aspirations and tendencies that can be seen in the practical policy of the Biden administration are not new. Whether it is the obviously failed idea of inflicting a ‘strategic defeat’ on Russia, or the naive desire to simultaneously restrain Moscow and Beijing, and now the Islamic Republic of Iran," said the Minister.
Lavrov also underscored that countries in Western Europe 'could become one of the centres of the emerging multipolar world order', as soon as they ‘come to their senses and realise that the course they are following under Washington's dictates is a dead end," he continued.
Moscow launched a military offensive in Ukraine in late February 2022 after recognising the independence of the Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics (DPR and LPR), claiming that Kiev had failed to guarantee their special status under the 2014 Minsk Agreements, and urging Ukraine to declare itself officially neutral and give assurances that it would never join NATO.
Kiev denounced the Russian action as an invasion. Zelensky imposed martial law throughout the country, announcing a general mobilisation, while the EU and the US imposed several rounds of sanctions on Moscow, and has since supplied tens of billions of dollars in military support to the Kiev regime.