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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Daniel Keane

Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov walks out of UN meeting after defending war in Ukraine

Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov dramatically walked out of a UN Security Council meeting on Thursday after his UK counterpart accused Moscow of “a catalogue of dishonesty and disinformation” over the war in Ukraine.

Mr Lavrov, who arrived late to the meeting and left after addressing the council, baselessly claimed Kyiv and the west had sparked Russia’s war of aggression.

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