Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that those who are trying to escalate the situation around the Ukrainian conflict apparently did not read Russian President Vladimir Putin’s statement, but they will suffer ‘deserved punishment’.
‘Apparently, those who are now trying to inflame passions and escalate the situation quite to the limit have not read the statements of the Russian president. It should be done regularly. But the fact that they will suffer the deserved punishment, there can be no doubt,’ – said Sergei Lavrov in a commentary for the programme ’Moscow. Kremlin. Putin’ programme on Russia-1 TV channel, a fragment of which was published by Pavel Zarubin in his Telegram channel.
Answering the question whether the Ukrainian strikes by Western long-range missiles on Russian territory are a confirmation of the inevitability of the Strategic Defence Forces, the Russian Foreign Minister said that the escalation of the conflict is taking place in ‘impotent anger, from hopelessness’.
The minister also stressed that a special military operation in Ukraine was inevitable from the very beginning.
Earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the direct involvement of Western countries in the conflict in Ukraine changes its essence, Russia will make decisions based on the threats posed to it.
