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Russia's foreign minister Sergey Lavrov provoked laughter from an audience at a conference in India when he claimed his country is the victim of the war in ...

'You know, the war, which we are trying to stop, which was launched against us,' says Russian foreign minister.

and you don’t ask them any questions?” We would not allow them to blow the pipelines again,” he continues. [Moscow](https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/moscow) “will not let the West blow up gas pipelines again”, referring to the Kremlin’s accusation that Western countries were responsible for the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines in September. “... “The responsibility for the possible continuation of the bloodshed will lie entirely on the conscience of Ukraine’s ruling regime,” Mr Putin said at the time. [Ukraine](/topic/ukraine) on 24 February last year, in what he called a “special military operation” in the country.

Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov provoked scores of laughter after claiming his country is the victim in the war with Ukraine.

and you don't ask them any questions?" We would not allow them to blow the pipelines again," Lavrov added. - as several more laughed at his claims.

'If you raise this issue, you should have done some homework,' Lavrov said while in conversation with ORF Chairman Sunjoy Joshi at the conference Friday.

For instance, he asked the host how long the Raisina Dialogue has been held. “Have you been interested in these years, what is going on in Iraq, Afghanistan? He further suggested that diplomats like Lavrov use lies to “feed Putin’s fantasies” and get promoted. “The war, which we are trying to stop, was launched against us using the Ukrainian people. In another instance, he interrupted the host by saying: “Wait a second. “This is unfortunately what is being tried by some other outside players in the context of so-called Indo-Pacific strategies, in the context of AUKUS, in the context of using Quad, not for economic purposes but trying to militarise Quad,” he said.

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's top diplomat, faced a raucous response from the audience at India's G20 summit.

In reality, Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, igniting the largest military conflict in Europe since World War II. Lavrov began to answer by claiming that the war in Ukraine was launched against Russia, but he was met with laughter and a shout of “come on!” from the crowd. Sergey Lavrov, Russia's top diplomat, faced a raucous response from the audience at India's G20 summit when he claimed that the war in Ukraine “was launched against us.”

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov received a chorus of laughs while speaking Delhi, after he suggested that the war in Ukraine was launched against ...

And the blunt way to describe what is the change, what changed, we would not anymore rely on any partners in the West," Lavrov added. Lavrov was asked about the warn in Ukraine. The Kremlin has repeatedly claimed that it was provoked into the war in Ukraine, and that the West was actually instigating the conflict.