OUR Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said today that Moscow does not threaten anyone with nuclear weapons and that open confrontation with the US and NATO is not in Russia’s interests, Russian state news agencies reported.

It is noted that on Thursday the head of Russian diplomacy, Sergei Lavrov, rejected in the UN Security Council Western accusations regarding the war in Ukraine, saying that the decision on a “special military operation” – as the Kremlin calls the invasion – was “inevitable” for Moscow to protect the Russian-speaking population of Donbass.

Speaking to his colleagues (including Ukraine) at a special meeting of the Security Council, the Russian Foreign Minister accused Kyiv of denying basic rights to the Russian-speaking population of Donbass.

“The United States and its allies (…) covered up the crimes committed by the Kyiv regime,” Lavrov said, denying accusations of Russian military atrocities in Ukraine. At the same time, he rejected in advance the work of the International Criminal Court, which Russia, in his words, “does not trust.”

With information from APE/PE