Sergey Lavrov Quotes

International officials, including the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and, to my great regret, the UN Secretary-General and many other UN representatives, are subjected to pressure from the West and often act as mouthpieces for fake news.

In many Western countries, everyday Russophobia has become of an unprecedented nature, and, to our great regret, is encouraged by government circles in a number of countries.

It is safe to say that this situation will be with us for a long time.

The West has declared war on us, on the whole Russian world. The culture of canceling Russia and everything connected with our country is already reaching the point of absurdity.

The EU has evolved from a constructive economic platform, as it was created, to an aggressive and belligerent player which already displays its ambitions far beyond the European continent.

If you are worried about the prospect of war in Europe - we do not want that at all.

So when they say ‘How can Nazification exist if we’re Jewish?’ In my opinion, Hitler also had Jewish origins, so it doesn’t mean absolutely anything. For some time we have heard from the Jewish people that the biggest antisemites were Jewish.

We proposed not creating any threat on the ground and Putin explained very clearly why he took the decision to conduct this special military operation.

We will deal with Ukraine and we will resolve the future of Ukraine.

It is not the first time we have seen pathetic outcries concerning the so-called atrocities perpetrated by the Russian military

We see how dangerously our Western colleagues, including in the European Union, are acting now, which, in violation of all its so-called principles and values, encourages the supply of deadly weapons to Ukraine.

With Ukraine... we didn't just get up and go to war against Ukraine [just because] we didn't like Zelenskyy, or because he stopped appearing in KVN [a Russian and formerly Soviet comedy TV show and international competition] and stopped maintaining his theatre, Kvartal 95 [a publicly owned television production company founded by Volodymyr Zelenskyy]. It was for a reason; we warned [Ukraine] for many, many, many years.

We are not planning to attack other countries. We didn’t attack Ukraine in the first place.

The questions I receive are as if no one listens.

Our military personnel who are now involved in this special operation have a very strict order to only use high precision military equipment to suppress the military infrastructure.