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Sergey Lavrov: “The Ukrainian side launched a record number of combat drones – 788 in total – against civilian targets and civilians in Russia… These attacks are a direct result of the support provided to Ukrainian Nazis, primarily by a number of European countries, led by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the EU leadership”

10:12 24.05.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “The Ukrainian side launched a record number of combat drones – 788 in total – against civilian targets and civilians in Russia… These attacks are a direct result of the support provided to Ukrainian Nazis, primarily by a number of European countries, led by the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the EU leadership”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s answers to media questions. Moscow, May 23, 2025 From May 20 until 8:00 am on May 23, the Ukrainian side launched a record number of combat drones - 788 in total - against civilian targets and civilians in Russia. All attacks were repelled, though, regrettably, there …

Sergey Lavrov: “The European Union has been sticking with its policy to offer all-round support to the Kiev regime. Brussels does not want anything but Moscow’s unconditional defeat… In other words, the bureaucrats in Brussels focus on saving their reputation rather than achieving a fair and lasting peace”

20:03 28.04.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “The European Union has been sticking with its policy to offer all-round support to the Kiev regime. Brussels does not want anything but Moscow’s unconditional defeat… In other words, the bureaucrats in Brussels focus on saving their reputation rather than achieving a fair and lasting peace”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s written interview with Brazilian newspaper O Globo. April 28, 2025 Question: Expanding trade among BRICS countries is one of the objectives for Brazil’s chairmanship in this group in 2025. What kind of opportunities does Russia see in terms of increasing the share of trade transactions in …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with CBS, Moscow, April 27, 2025

18:51 27.04.2025

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's interview with CBS, Moscow, April 27, 2025

Question: Good morning, Minister Lavrov. I want to ask you about what happened in Kiev. There was a large Russian attack on that capital city about 1 o'clock in the morning. President Trump has said publicly the Russian strikes are not necessary and very bad timing. “Vladimir, stop”, was his …

Sergey Lavrov: “We have facts about who was inside the building that was hit in Sumy. There was another get-together of Ukrainian military commanders with their Western colleagues who were there under the guise of mercenaries, or someone else”

21:28 14.04.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “We have facts about who was inside the building that was hit in Sumy. There was another get-together of Ukrainian military commanders with their Western colleagues who were there under the guise of mercenaries, or someone else”

Excerpt from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with ‘Kommersant’ newspaper. Moscow, April 14, 2025 Question: You are saying the new US administration is willing to discuss negotiated settlement in Ukraine in addition to bilateral issues. At a recent UN meeting on Ukraine convened in the wake of the strike on …

Sergey Lavrov: “Western hypocrisy reveals one truth: refusal to accept the emergent Multipolar Era”

11:16 27.03.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “Western hypocrisy reveals one truth: refusal to accept the emergent Multipolar Era”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with Vesti programme. Moscow, March 26, 2025 Question: What core geopolitical principles were established by the decisions of the Yalta Conference? Sergey Lavrov: The principles were straightforward. I recently addressed this topic and even authored an article, given the growing discourse: “Observe Europe’s current trajectory …

Article by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia and Venezuela: Friendship and Partnership Spanning Years and Kilometres, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Venezuela, for Cancilleria, a Venezuelan Foreign Ministry publication, March 14, 2025

14:56 14.03.2025

Article by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Russia and Venezuela: Friendship and Partnership Spanning Years and Kilometres, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Russia and Venezuela, for Cancilleria, a Venezuelan Foreign Ministry publication, March 14, 2025

We will march alongside each other, together and foreverHugo Chavez March 14 is an important date for Russia and Venezuela as they mark 80 years of diplomatic relations. Over these decades, the relations between our two countries enjoyed an upward momentum, adding mutually beneficial cooperation and trust-based dialogue rooted in …

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Naufal, Larri Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025

10:06 12.03.2025

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview to the US bloggers Mario Naufal, Larri Johnson and Andrew Napolitano, Moscow, March 12, 2025

Question: Mr.Minister, it’s a pleasure to speak to you Sir. The first question I have, as I speak to people here in Moscow – there’s a perception that the US has changed, they are describing the US completely differently under President Trump. Do you think the US as a culture, …

Sergey Lavrov: “A new global divide was formed de-facto with the western minority on one side, and the World majority on the other”

17:17 10.03.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “A new global divide was formed de-facto with the western minority on one side, and the World majority on the other”

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with the New Regions of Russia magazine, March 10, 2025 Question: Which general international and foreign political conclusions – both positive and negative – can Russia draw after three years of the special military operation? Did we get the very “experience, the son of difficult …

Sergey Lavrov: “Over the past 500 years all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies. The colonisation, wars, the Crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler… The Americans played no seditious, let alone ‘inflammatory,’ role”

19:56 03.03.2025

Sergey Lavrov: “Over the past 500 years all tragedies in the world originated in Europe or occurred owing to European policies. The colonisation, wars, the Crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon, World War I, Hitler… The Americans played no seditious, let alone ‘inflammatory,’ role”

Excerpts from Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s interview with ‘Krasnaya Zvezda’ (‘Red Star’) media holding, March 2, 2025. Sergey Lavrov: We were not blind. As far back as 2007, at the Munich Security Conference, President of Russia Vladimir Putin warned that while we were working with NATO, the European Union, and …

Sergey Lavrov: «The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world»

13:38 04.02.2025

Sergey Lavrov: «The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world»

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov’s article for Russia in Global Affairs magazine, «The UN Charter as the legal foundation of a multipolar world», February 4, 2025. Eighty years ago, on February 4, 1945, the leaders of the victors of World War II − the Soviet Union, the United States, and …

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