“Completely crazy Zelensky formula’: Lavrov rails against Ukraine peace plan and stirs up fear. Lavrov has served as Vladimir Putin's loyal foreign minister since 2004.
“The goal is to punish us and bring us about a strategic defeat,” he says. He also fuels fears that Ukraine could commit genocide in the territories currently held by Russia after Moscow's troops withdraw. It is another threatening gesture to rouse people living in the annexed territories and the states that have not yet renounced Russia.