The Latest Breaking News from Sergey Lavrov

The war in Ukraine and its global fallout transfixed the meeting of world leaders at the U.N. General Assembly this year

Latest updates: all the news and developments from the war in Ukraine

Rights groups say more than 730 people were detained at anti-war protests across the country.

They discuss bilateral cooperation, “exchanged views on Ukraine”, the G-20 and UN reforms

European Union candidate Serbia has signed an agreement with Russia to hold mutual “consultations” on foreign policy matters

Russia has told the world that it has “no choice” but to take military action in Ukraine

The tide of international opinion appears to have decisively shifted against Russia, as a number of non-aligned countries joined the United States and its allies in condemning Russia’s war in Ukraine and its threats to the principles of the international rules-based order

UNITED NATIONS — Signaling that the Russian war in Ukraine has triggered an existential crisis for the United Nations, several of its key members on Thursday harshly denounced Moscow's actions, but failed to take new steps to stop the bloodshed and food, energy and humanitarian crises unleashed worldwide.

After days of speeches by world leaders taking subtle and not-so-subtle shots at Russia for its invasion of Ukraine during the annual U.N. General Assembly, in walked Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov