Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov mentioned on Monday that the West is waging a “real war” with Russia.
“If we talk about what’s going on in Ukraine, it’s not a hybrid war, it’s a real war that the West has been preparing against Russia for a long time,” Lavrov mentioned throughout a go to to South Africa.
In Pretoria, Lavrov accused the West of “trying to destroy everything Russian, from language to culture,” in response to the Russian state news company TASS.
The high diplomat had met with South African Foreign Minister Naledi Pandor.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has justified his invasion of Ukraine, partly, on baseless claims that Kiev is persecuting ethnic Russians and Russian-speaking residents in Ukraine.
South Africa, a part of the BRICS group of rising economies together with Russia, China, India and Brazil, has taken a impartial stance on the battle in Ukraine.
The nation is planning joint navy workouts with the Russian and Chinese navies off the port metropolis of Durban within the second half of February. The naval workouts coincide with the one-year anniversary of the beginning of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
A Russia-Africa leaders summit is deliberate for July in St Petersburg.
