Russias Lavrov blasts US, Western allies as warmongers in fiery UN tirade

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attacked the US and its Western allies as “warmongers” in a fiery tirade at the UN Saturday, where he sought to drive a wedge between the US and Europe while defending Russia’s bloody war in Ukraine.He called out the US for military actions in Venezuela and Iran, while quoting Russian President Vladimir Putin as he railed against Western “hegemony.”“The West aspires to inflict strategic defeat on Russia, but these aspirations will result in the warmongers being led into a strategic dead end,” Lavrov told the General Assembly.“At the start of this year, in contravention of all norms, including moral norms, the US invaded Venezuela, resulting in the abduction of President Maduro and his spouse — held in an American prison without trial.And this despite the fact that international law clearly states that the highest-ranking public officials of any state should enjoy immunities,” he said.

“It is unacceptable the fact that force was used to kill the supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and members of his family,” said Lavrov, who did not address high-level Russian threats against the life of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.He said US and Israeli attacks on Iran “also seek to target the civilian infrastructure in Iran and civilian nuclear infrastructure under [international] safeguards.”Lavrov then turned his attention to Ukraine, where he accused the US and its allies of prolonging the war by arming Kyiv.“The West is pumping the Ukrainian regime full of weapons, helping Kyiv to target drones and missiles to target them at civilians and civilian infrastructure,” he said, skirting over repeated Russian attacks on Ukrainian apartments, warehouses, and energy infrastructure.Ukraine, which is fighting off the invasion, launched its own series of drone attacks on Russian refineries.Lavrov also broadened his attack beyond the Ukraine war, taking aim at the US embargo and fuel blockade aga...