Lavrov warns that the war between Russia and the West is no longer "hybrid", but an "almost real" conflict

MADRID, 23 Ene. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Russian Foreign Minister, Sergei Lavrov, warned on Monday that the confrontation between Russia and the Western powers is no longer "hybrid", but has already become an "almost real" conflict that the countries opposed to Moscow have been "preparing for a long time".

"It is no longer a hybrid war, but almost a real one, which the West has long been preparing against Russia, trying to destroy everything Russian, from language to culture, which has been present in Ukraine for centuries, and banning people speak their native language," Lavrov denounced.

In statements from South Africa, in the framework of a meeting with his South African counterpart, Naledi Pandor, the Russian Foreign Minister has accused the President of Ukraine, Volodimir Zelenski, and his predecessor in office, Petro Poroshenko, of having broken the promise with which they achieved the Headship of State.

"Both former President Poroshenko and current President Zelensky, who were elected under the banner of establishing peace, immediately after being elected became war presidents and Russophobic presidents," Lavrov said, according to the Russian news agency TASS. .

In this denunciation of the anti-Russian course adopted by kyiv and its allies, Moscow has stressed that the Ukrainian authorities have come to adopt laws that prohibit the Russian language in the educational system, in the media, and even, it says, in the daily life.

"All cultural contacts related to the Russian language are prohibited. And all this is supported by the West. Just as the West supports the regular marches of neo-Nazis with swastikas, with symbols of divisions that were prohibited by the Nuremberg Tribunal and that They are recognized as criminals. The West supports all this," Lavrov concluded.