PARIS, France: French public television came under severe criticism on Friday for airing a prime-time interview with Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.
The France 2 television channel aired 10 minutes of the pre-recorded interview during its Thursday evening news, while the full hour-long version was posted online.
More than four years into Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Lavrov on France 2 claimed Moscow was intent on defending “international law.”
He said the US-Israeli strikes on Iran that sparked the Middle East war had breached these rules.
But he rejected any notion of Russia breaking international law in Ukraine, claiming its forces never targeted “exclusively civilian” targets.
