Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov delivered a dismissive account of Russia’s war in Ukraine and then abandoned the debate, drawing the jeers of Ukrainian and Western officials.
“Russian diplomats flee almost as aptly as Russian soldiers,” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said when he spoke after Lavrov’s departure.
“I sat here in February, listening to the Russian representative assuring this council that Russia had no intention of invading its neighbor,” British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said during his own address to the Security Council. “We now know that was a lie. And today, I have listened to further installments of Russia's catalogs of distortions, dishonesty, and disinformation. He has left the chamber. I'm not surprised. I don't think Mr.
Lavrov made that rhetorical move even though the council meeting opened with a condemnation of the killings in Bucha.
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