Top diplomat Sergey Lavrov’s fiery UN speech comes just days after Putin aired a shift in the country’s nuclear doctrine.
Russia’s top diplomat warned on Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power”, delivering a UN General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere – including inside the United Nations itself.
Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s nuclear doctrine, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the West of using Ukraine – which Russia invaded in February 2022 – as a tool to try “to defeat” Moscow strategically, and “preparing Europe for it to also throw itself into this suicidal escapade”.
