MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. The West's war against Russia is no longer hybrid, but direct and "hot," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an embassy round table on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine.
He also said the North Atlantic Alliance is being drawn into the war that the US and Israel have unleashed against Iran.
TASS has compiled the key statements made by the foreign minister.
The West wanted Russia to collapse when it unleashed a conflict against it through Ukraine: "The goal of the war against Russia that was prepared and ultimately unleashed by the West through the Ukrainian regime is to weaken, as they themselves say, to inflict a strategic defeat on our country. And there is every reason to believe that behind this lies, you know, the utmost desire to destroy our country."
The West prepared Ukraine to become anti-Russia: "And it became the spearhead of the West's hybrid war, but recently it has become not only a hybrid war, but a direct, ‘hot’ war by the West against the Russian Federation."
