Russia slams US for performing like 'an virtually-envoy for God on Earth' at the UN

Naomi Lim

September 24, 03:00 PM September 24, 03:00 PM

NEW YORK — Russia's top diplomat accused the United States of performing like a dictator towards nations that threatened its political and economic dominance through his United Nations Common Assembly tackle.

"Washington erected them selves into an practically-envoy for God on Earth," Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov explained to the U.N. Saturday by way of a translator. "Name a country in which Washington interfered by drive and, as a end result of that, daily life enhanced."

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Lavrov spoke at the U.N. days soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin declared he was mobilizing about 300,000 army reservists with schooling and knowledge for Ukraine and threatened nuclear escalation after Kyiv's productive counteroffensive marketing campaign.

The international minister criticized Western sanctions and dismissed worries with regards to referenda in Ukraine's japanese Russia-controlled Donbas region, as properly as Kherson in the south, on whether they ought to formally turn into aspect of the Russian Federation, as "fits."

"Folks living there are in essence only reacting to what was said to them by the head of the Kyiv regime," he said, referring to democratically elected Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky telling pro-Russian separatists in Donbas final 12 months to go away.

Lavrov also warned the U.S. it was "actively playing with fire" by interfering in China-Taiwan tensions, contending the future goal of "the collective West," led by Washington, is "subjugating" Indo-Pacific countries just after NATO's "unfold" to the east.

Lavrov arrived late to a U.N. Safety Council meeting convened Thursday to focus on the "routine maintenance of peace and security of Ukraine" and "fight impunity." Lavrov departed soon just after delivering remarks that bundled untrue allegations against Kyiv and Zelensky.

"Impunity displays what has been going on that country considering that 2014, when national radical forces, open Russophobes, and neo-Nazis arrived to ability then as a consequence of an armed coup with direct assist of Western nations," Lavrov claimed. "Intentional fermenting of this conflict by the collective West remains unpunished. Of study course, you will never punish yourselves."

A person working day prior, Zelensky, with permission from the Typical Assembly, addressed the body by means of video clip connection. He made an enchantment to demand from customers "just punishment" for crimes he alleges Russia has committed towards Ukraine's borders and its people.

"Talk to, please, the reps of Russia why the Russian navy are so obsessed with castration," he mentioned immediately after mass graves were identified in Izyium. "What was completed to them so that they want to do this to other individuals?"