The war in Ukraine will not end until the West “abandons its plans” to defeat Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Indonesian media on Wednesday.
The war in Ukraine will not end until the West “abandons its plans” to defeat Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with Indonesian media on Wednesday.
So, I was really confused when I saw many statements like this being translated early in the war. I couldn’t see the point, because it disn’t seem like much of a gotcha. I think that they are basically aimed at the domestic audience. Like, losing in a war to Ukraine is maybe seen as an inexcusable error for the government by the Russian public, but losing to NATO is not.