West Is Said To Declare Total War On Russia, Foreign Minister Lavrov: This Situation Will Last A Long Time

JAKARTA - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the West had declared total war on Russia, including Russian people and culture, following the invasion of Ukraine.

"The West has declared total war against us, against the Russian World. No one is keeping this a secret," Foreign Minister Lavrov said at a meeting of the Council of heads of Russian constituent regions at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, TASS reported on May 27.

Furthermore, Foreign Minister Lavrov warned that the Western policy to 'cancel' Russia would continue for a long time.

"The culture of canceling Russia and everything related to our country has reached the point of absurdity. Bans have been imposed on classics such as Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Pushkin," he explained.

"The persecution is ongoing against Russian culture and art workers. In general, one can do it, ensuring this situation will last a long time," Lavrov said.

"We have to realize that it has exposed the West's real attitude towards the beautiful slogans put forward 30 years ago after the end of the Cold War, the call for universal human values, to build a common home for Europe from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Now we can see the true value. of these beautiful words," said Lavrov.

He stressed that Russia would definitely not agree to this.

"In this situation there is a great demand for concrete discussions on how we develop our cooperation, the cooperation between our ministries and civil society, including at the regional level," he concluded.