Ukrainian military source says attack in Russia city marks ‘new phase’ of war
Lavrov’s news conference in Moscow has finished after nearly three hours. In addition to comments he made earlier, which we have posted on already in the blog, here are some more lines from the briefing:
According to Sky News, Lavrov said the people of Russia and Belarus will do everything to protect their independence and sovereignty. He was responding to a journalist’s question on how the two countries would contain Nato agression.
There had been some illusions that existed in the 1990s [that] the west is going to welcome us with open arms.
Now these illusions are gone. We can no longer trust the west. The west wants just one thing – to live at somebody else’s expense and be smarter than everyone else.”
