Moscow: West aims to destroy Russia

By Agence France-Presse

Feb 03, 2023 1:00 am

MOSCOW: Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday accused the West of wanting to inflict a lasting defeat against Moscow and lashed out against European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen as she visited Kyiv.

'Ursula von der Leyen... said that the outcome of the war should be the defeat of Russia, the kind of defeat that for decades, for many decades, Russia cannot restore its economy,' Lavrov said in comments aired on Russian state television.

TOUGH TALKER Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint news conference with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry (not pictured) in Moscow on Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023. AFP PHOTO

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