Russia's foreign minister again lays blame on the West for the Ukraine war. [View all]
Source: New York Times
The Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, used his remarks to the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday to renew the Kremlin’s attacks on the United States and its Western allies, saying they had staged a “coup” in Ukraine that eventually led to Russia’s invasion last year.
Mr. Lavrov’s claims — shortly after President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine opened the session with his own speech condemning Russian aggression — stressed familiar Kremlin talking points, including that Kyiv was a U.S. puppet.
A series of speakers after Mr. Zelensky, including the American secretary of state, Antony J. Blinken, strongly criticized Russia for the invasion, its attacks on Ukrainian civilians, and its decision to pull out of a deal allowing Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea. But Mr. Lavrov heard little of that criticism, arriving in the chamber just before it was his turn to speak.
He reiterated claims Russia has used to justify its invasion, saying that the United States had fomented a “brutal” anti-Russian coup in 2014, a version of history that ignores myriad other factors that led to the Maidan uprising that year in Ukraine.
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