The Latest Breaking News from Sergei Lavrov

As Russia's top diplomat during the invasion of Ukraine, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is embodying the Kremlin's defiant posture with a mixture of toughness and sarcasm. While President Vladimir Putin single-handedly shapes the country’s foreign policy, Lavrov delivers Moscow’s message with a bluntness uncharacteristic of a diplomat. In the role…

Russia would face a “real danger” if Ukraine acquired nuclear weapons, said Russian foreign minister

At least five people have been killed and five others injured in a suspected missile attack in Kyiv, according to Ukraine's civil defence authority.

The pre-recorded speech saw the foreign minister blame Ukraine for the war and claim Kyiv had been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons

“They cannot attack our freedom. We will fight until the end and we will win,” said Ukraine’s ambassador to the UN.

Dozens of diplomats, including from Britain, left the meeting rather than hear from the Russian foreign minister following the invasion of Ukraine.

More than 100 diplomats from some 40 Western countries and allies including Japan walked out of a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the top U.N. human rights forum on Tuesday in protest over Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Russia's foreign minister told a Geneva disarmament meeting on Tuesday that Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, calling this a real danger that it needed to prevent.

The West must not build military facilities in any countries of the former Soviet Union, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was quoted as saying on Tuesday.