Lavrov says Russia ready to use any means in Ukraine conflict
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said he hoped the West took “seriously” Moscow’s recent use of a hypersonic missile in Ukraine.
Speaking during an interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson, Lavrov said the weapon was used to make the West understand that Moscow was ready to use any means to ensure no “strategic defeat” would be inflicted on Moscow.
Lavrov also said it was a “very serious mistake” for anyone in the West to presume that Russia had no red lines or that they were “being moved again and again.”
Two weeks ago, Russia fired its new “Oreshnik” hypersonic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in a major escalation of the nearly three-year war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has since threatened to use the weapon against Kyiv in response to Ukrainian strikes on Russian territory.
