⚡️ Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov: "We would like to have normal relations with all our neighbors, of course, but generally with all countries especially with the great country like the United States. And President Vladimir Putin repeatedly expressed his respect for the American people, for the American history, for the American achievements in the world, and we don't see any reason why Russia and the United States cannot cooperate for the sake of the universe."

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❗️ The launch of the Oreshnik hypersonic ballistic missile system has sent a clear signal to the West that Russia will be ready to do anything to defend its legitimate interests, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"The message is that you, I mean the United States, and the allies of the United States who also provide this long-range weapons to the Kiev regime, they must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call the strategic defeat of Russia," Lavrov underscored.

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❗️Russia hopes its signal with Oreshnik was taken seriously - Lavrov

Moscow and Washington are not formally at war, but Ukraine's strikes deep inside Russia with US-made weapons, alongside Pentagon officials' rhetoric regarding limited nuclear strikes, is really worrying, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"We don't want to aggravate the situation, but since ATACMS and other long-range weapons are being used against mainland Russia as it were, we are sending signals. We hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapon system called Oreshnik, was taken seriously," Lavrov said.

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❗️Zelensky's regime doesn't represent people of Donbass and Novorossiya - Lavrov

The West should respect the right of self-determination of the people of former eastern and southern Ukraine that is enshrined in the UN Charter, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"The right to self-determination is the international legal basis for the decolonization process... The people in the east and south of Ukraine, people in Donbass and Novorossiya, they don't consider the Zelensky regime as something which represents their interests. How can they do that when their culture, their language, their traditions, their religion, all this was prohibited?" Lavrov asked.

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⚡️ "We would certainly like to avoid any misunderstanding. And since the people, some people in Washington and some people in London, in Brussels, seemed to be not very capable to understand, we will send additional messages if they don't draw necessary conclusions," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

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Territorial integrity is respected when the government respects their peoples' rights - Lavrov

The very first article of the UN Charter, which calls for "respecting human rights for all" has never been invoked by the West in the context of Ukraine's suppression of Russian speakers, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"So when people say, 'Let's resolve the conflict on the basis of the Charter,' - yes. But don't forget that the Charter is not only about territorial integrity. And territorial integrity must be respected only if the governments are legitimate and if they respect the rights of their own people," Lavrov said.

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❗️Unlike US, Russia fights for people, not for natural resources - Lavrov

US policymakers visiting Ukraine openly say they want to lay their hands on the nation's natural resources with the help of the subservient Kiev regime, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"We fight for the people who have been living on these lands, whose ancestors were actually developing those lands, building cities, building factories for centuries and centuries. We care about people, not about natural resources which somebody in the US would like to keep and to have Ukrainians just as servants," Lavrov stated.

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Russia hates even to think about war with the US - Lavrov

It was the US who rejected Russia's December 2021 draft security proposals concerning Ukraine's NATO membership and the Western military bloc's expansion, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

"We hate even to think about war with the United States, which will take on a nuclear character," Lavrov said. "Our military doctrine says that the most important thing is to avoid a nuclear war. And it was us, by the way, who initiated in January 2022... the joint statement by the leaders of the five permanent members of the [UN] Security Council saying that we will do anything to avoid confrontation between us."

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End result of US peace plan would be ceding Russian-speakers to neo-Nazi regime

The West is using back-channels solely to inform Moscow about their unilateral plans to settle the Ukraine conflict while snubbing Russia's interests or those of the people of new Russian regions, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told American journalist Tucker Carlson.

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❗️ We did not start this war – Lavrov

Describing Ukrainians as "brothers and sisters to the Russian people," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled that the US has not even tried to cover up its role in fueling the conflict between Russia and the Ukraine, including through the 2014 coup.

"We did not start this war. We have been, for years and years and years, sending warnings that pushing NATO closer and closer to our borders is going to create a problem," Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

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Ukrainian regime's goal is to 'kill as many Russians' as possible - Lavrov

While Russia has never considered "killing people" as its goal in the Ukrainian conflict, the same cannot be said about the Ukrainian authorities, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

"The former Ukrainian ambassador to Kazakhstan, Pyotr Vrublevsky, became famous when he gave an interview and looked into the camera (that was recorded and broadcast) and said: 'Our main task is to kill as many Russians as possible so that our children have less things to do,'" Lavrov noted. "And such statements are everywhere in the regime's vocabulary," he added.

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Zelensky became rabid Russophobe after becoming president – Lavrov

While Volodymyr Zelensky was a vocal defender of the Russian language during his career as a comedian, he quickly changed his tune after becoming president of Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

🔄 Lavrov recalled how Zelensky went from telling “those who wanted to attack the Russian language and Russian culture” to “get lost,” to pushing for ethnic cleansing in eastern Ukraine in a controversial September 2021 interview.

"He answered 'very thoughtfully' [that] there are people and there are species. And if you, living in Ukraine, feel associated with the Russian culture, my advice to you, for the sake of your kids, for the sake of your grandkids, get out to Russia," Lavrov recalled, paraphrasing Zelensky.

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❗️Lavrov to Tucker: America's 'you are with us or against us approach' to foreign policy poisoned ties

"[In Ukraine the Americans] were cultivating this pro-Western mood. Well, pro-Western is not bad, basically. Pro-Eastern is also not bad. What is bad is that you tell people, either/or, either you go with me or you're my enemy," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Tucker Carlson, recalling Washington’s imperious policy in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus going back to the 2000s.

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UN officials, politicians, mainstream media curiously lost interest in Bucha violence – Lavrov

"The Bucha thing, which was played all over the media condemning Russia, is not of interest to anyone - politicians, UN officials. And now even journalists," anymore, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told Tucker Carlson, referencing the murder of scores of civilians in the Kiev suburb of Bucha in March 2022, blamed on Russia, but later revealed to have been perpetrated by Ukrainian radicals to justify Kiev’s pullout from peace talks with Moscow.

"I asked when I talked to them in September, please, as professional people, try to get the names of those whose bodies were shown in Bucha. No answer," Lavrov recalled.

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"What they did to him, I don't know" - Lavrov on Navalny's treatment in German hospital

The exact circumstances of Russian opposition activist and convicted criminal Alexei Navalny's death remain unclear because Germany refuses to provide information about the treatment he received in a German hospital in 2020, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

"He died serving the [prison] term in Russia. As far as it was reported, every now and then he felt [unwell]. Which was another reason why we continued to ask the Germans: can you show us the results you found? Because we did not find what they found. And what they did to him, I don't know," Lavrov explained.

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Biden administration seeks to leave Trump as big a mess as they can - Lavrov

The Biden administration is trying to leave the Trump administration with the worst legacy possible in terms of the relationship with Russia, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

🔄 He compared Joe Biden's actions to those of Barack Obama in 2016, who at the end of his presidency ordered the surprise expulsion of 120 Russian diplomats with their families and the seizure of Russian diplomatic property in the US, on the grounds of the now long-debunked Russiagate election meddling claims. This "did not create a promising ground for the beginning of our relations with the Trump administration," Lavrov recalled.

"So I think they're doing the same thing," Lavrov said, referring to the current administration’s actions during Biden’s lame duck phase.

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❗️Lavrov reveals Russia’s key condition for peace in Ukraine

The "non-bloc status of Ukraine" remains Russia’s key condition for resolving the Ukrainian conflict, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Tucker Carlson.

"No NATO. Absolutely. No military bases, no military exercises on Ukrainian soil with participation of foreign troops," Lavrov said, noting that Russian President Vladimir Putin has said as much going back to April 2022.

Realities on the ground, including the status of the Donetsk and Lugansk People’s Republics and the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions, which are now part of Russia, must also “be taken into account and accepted," Lavrov emphasized.

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