In his annual press conference, summing up Russia’s foreign policy performance in the past year, Lavrov provided a series of distorted facts, misleading claims, and outright lies, all designed to deflect attention from Russia’s actions on the global stage.

As Russia’s bloody invasion is coming up on its three-year anniversary, Lavrov claimed that Russia is “not concerned with territorial gain” in Ukraine but rather with the welfare of the people in Ukraine. The preposterous claim is contradicted by the brutal actions Russia has carried out in places like Bucha and Mariupol, where countless civilians have been killed, tortured, and displaced, with entire Ukrainian cities destroyed, lives destroyed and millions of refugees fleeing — proving that Russia’s focus is on destruction, not the welfare of the people it purports to protect.

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