Russia’s Lavrov tells the West not to “fight to victory with a nuclear power”

Over the weekend, Sergei Lavrov, Russia’s foreign minister, told the UN that ignoring alternatives to Ukraine’s peace plans was pointless. He also warned the West of the dangers of trying to “fight to victory with a nuclear power.”

Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly, Lavrov attacked people who support Ukraine and Kyiv’s peace plan.

In February 2022, Russia attacked Ukraine. Based on the U.N. Charter and international law, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy presented a 10-point peace plan nine months later to end the war in a fair way. Russian officials turned down the plan.

“I’m not going to talk here about the senselessness and the danger of the very idea of trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power, which is what Russia is,” Lavrov stated.

“Equally senseless, the Western backers of Kyiv swearing that there is no alternative to negotiations based on the infamous peace formula.”

By saying that Western partners wanted to “destroy” the Soviet Union in the 1940s, he said that the West was trying to give Russia a “strategic defeat” in Ukraine.

Today’s Anglo-Saxon leaders aren’t hiding what they think. He said, “For now, they do hope to beat Russia using the illegal neo-Nazi regime in Kyiv, but they’re already getting Europe ready to join them on this self-defeating adventure.”

Israel’s attack in Beirut that killed the leader of Hezbollah also worries Russia. Lavrov said that these “political killings” had become routine.