Moscow’s top diplomat says the U.S. wants Ukraine to win on the battlefield because it believes such a victory would weaken or even destroy Russia.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the state-owned news agency TASS on Tuesday that it’s no secret the U.S. and NATO are using the conflict as a mechanism to cause trouble for the government of President Vladimir Putin.
“The actions by the collective West and their puppet [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelenskyy confirm the global nature of the Ukrainian crisis,” Mr. Lavrov told TASS. “Our opponents will do just about anything to achieve this goal.