Lavrov says Russia ready to defend itself through 'any means', urges West to take missile attacks 'seriously'
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Lavrov says Russia ready to defend itself through 'any means', urges West to take missile attacks 'seriously'

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While he insisted that Russia doesn’t want to escalate the situation and wants to ‘avoid any misunderstanding’ with Washington and its partners, Lavrov warned that ‘we will send additional messages if they don’t draw necessary conclusions’ Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said he hopes the West took “seriously” Moscow’s recent use of a hypersonic missile in Ukraine, and warned that Russia was ready to use “any means” to defend itself. The United States and its allies “must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia,” Lavrov said in an interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson released Thursday. “We are sending signals and we hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapons system called Oreshnik… was taken seriously,” Lavrov said. While he insisted that Russia doesn’t want to escalate the situation and wants to “avoid any misunderstanding” with Washington and its partners, Lavrov warned that “we will send additional messages if they don’t draw necessary conclusions.” Putin said the Oreshnik missile flies at 10 times the speed of sound and cannot be intercepted by air defenses.

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