Russia’s Lavrov blasts US, Western allies as “warmongers’ in fiery UN tirade

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized the U.S. and Western allies as warmongers during a United Nations address. He aimed to create divisions between the U.S. and Europe while defending Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Russian foreign minister attacked the US and its western allies in an effort to drive a wedge between the US and Europe and justify his country's own bloody invasion of Ukraine.
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