After dismissing international condemnation, Russia's foreign minister said 'it's clear to everyone that World War III can only be a nuclear one.'
—North Korea, Syria, Eritrea and Belarus —voted against the condemnation of Moscow's aggression. Thirty-five other nations, including China and India, abstained from the vote.and even Russia's elite calling for an end to the military conflict—Lavrov dismissed the criticism and opposition from the West in a Thursday press briefing.
"I am sure that this hysteria will fade away and our Western partners will get over it," he said, Tass news agency reported. Russian President Vladimir and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov enter St. Alexander Hall at the Grand Kremlin Palace on February 5, 2020 in Moscow, Russia.The Russian foreign minister defiantly asserted that severe Western sanctions—which have directly targeted him as well as Putin—would not impact Moscow's decisions. He called the sanctions"some kind of a tax on independence."
"If they expect... Russia to crawl under the bench and give in to someone's dictatorship, their expectations are wrong," Lavrov said."In fact, they should remember our history, we have never made agreements under pressure."
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