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Lavrov Says Russia Ready To Defend Itself Through 'Any Means'

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused US President Joe Biden's administration of escalating the conflict in Ukraine (Credit: AFP)

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said he hoped Ukraine's allies took "seriously" Moscow's recent use of a hypersonic missile in the conflict there, 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.

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