The West “wants to turn Russia into a rogue state” but has “failed to isolate us”. This was expressed by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking in the Duma, stressing that “ties with China have been strengthened”.
According to Tass, the minister underlined that “for many years” the West has pursued a policy of “containing Russia” “through the expansion of NATO towards Russian borders and the transformation of “fraternal Ukraine into anti-Russian”. An anti-Russian military stronghold”. But for Lavrov, the policy of the United States and its European allies is “reaching the point of no return.”
Adding that attempts to isolate Russia “have failed and even our enemies must accept it”, Putin recalled that he adopted a “foreign policy aimed at the defense of national interests as well as strengthening international cooperation”. And this is despite “the United States and its allies waging a hybrid war against us that has been prepared for years.” The purpose of this war, continued the Foreign Minister, is “not only to destroy the Russian economy by defeating our country on the battlefield, but also to surround ourselves with a security cordon and turn it into a kind of marginalized country”.
“The West is lying to Russia about what really happened in Nord Stream, namely the September explosions that damaged the pipeline,” Lavrov later said. “Everyone lied to us: now they are hiding the truth about the terrorist attacks on Nord Stream.”
Source: Today IT
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