In a U.N. speech, Russia’s foreign minister says ‘the future of the world order’ is at stake.
Advertisement Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Juston Jones and Hannah Wulkan Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday to lash out at the United States and its Western allies and divert attention from recent developments in the war in Ukraine. He laid out Russia’s case for invading Ukraine, flipping the narrative of the war and repeating what the Kremlin has said before: that his country was left with “no choice” seven months ago but to start “a special military operation” to protect Russians in the eastern regions, where many of the battles are currently raging, because Ukraine had trampled on the rights of ethnic Russians living there. He also framed the United States and its allies as being the ones ignoring international law in order to realize “their own selfish interests.” “The future of the world order is being decided to
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### Response: Advertisement Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. By Juston Jones and Hannah Wulkan Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, used his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday to lash out at the United States and its Western allies and divert attention from recent developments in the war in Ukraine. He laid out Russia’s case for invading Ukraine, flipping the narrative of the war and repeating what the Kremlin has said before: that his country was left with “no choice” seven months ago but to start “a special military operation” to protect Russians in the eastern regions, where many of the battles are currently raging, because Ukraine had trampled on the rights of ethnic Russians living there. He also framed the United States and its allies as being the ones ignoring international law in order to realize “their own selfish interests.” “The future of the world order is being decided to