Russia’s Lavrov: Ukraine conflict won’t end until West drops plans to defeat Moscow

The armed confrontation in Ukraine will continue until the West gives up plans to dominate and defeat Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in an interview with an Indonesian newspaper published on Wednesday.

The goal of the “US-led collective West” is to strengthen its global hegemony, Lavrov told the Kompas newspaper. Lavrov is due to attend the East Asia Summit and ASEAN Regional Forum in Jakarta this week, as is US Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

 The Asia-Pacific regions should be saved from negative scenarios that the United States and NATO have brought about in other parts of the world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview to Indonesia’s Kompas newspaper.

" Russia is a reliable supporter of the association [Association of Southeast Asian Nations, ASEAN]. The extrapolation to the Asia-Pacific Region of the negative scenarios that have been staged by the United States and NATO in other parts of the world must be prevented," he said.