In a 35-minute interview aired Friday on Russian state-owned tv community RT, Russian International Minister Sergey Lavrov claimed that Fox Information is the one American media outlet that gives "various" factors of view, and referred to as the removing of former President Donald Trump from Twitter and different social media "censorship."
This comes as the most recent back-and-forth on media and propaganda between the 2 international locations because the warfare in Ukraine rages on.
"So we all know the manners and the tips that are being utilized by the Western international locations to govern media," Lavrov stated. "We understood way back that there isn't a such factor as an unbiased Western media. When you take america solely Fox Information is attempting to current some various factors of view."
"However once you see, you watch different channels, and once you—watch, learn the social networks and web platforms, when the performing president was blocked, as , and this censorship continues in a really massive means and the substitution of notions each time one thing is going on by the way in which of mass protest mass demonstrations, which they do not like, they instantly name it home terrorism. So it is a warfare, and it is a warfare which includes the strategies of data terrorism. There isn't a doubt about this."
Lavrov additionally mentioned Presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky, in addition to a number of different matters just like the White Home's reported latest conferences with TikTok creators and the broadly disputed declare that america is funding harmful biolabs in Ukraine and across the globe.
He stated that Russia will adapt to the sanctions which were positioned on the nation by the West and stated they realized find out how to "rely" on themselves when sanctions have been positioned on Russia in 2014-15 after the annexation of Crimea.
In discussing the votes that the United Nations has held condemning Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Lavrov claimed that most of the international locations who haven't imposed sanctions on Russia solely voted to sentence Russia below "strain" from the U.S. and different Western nations.
Lavrov additionally claimed that Russia's army found paperwork that may show the controversial and broadly disputed claims that america is funding organic labs in Ukraine which might be finding out harmful pathogens and viruses that could possibly be weaponized in opposition to Russia and different international locations.
He claimed that the U.S. is funding over 300 labs all over the world, a lot bigger accusations than the handfuls of labs all through Ukraine that Russia has beforehand accused the U.S. of funding. The U.S. has acknowledged the existence of labs in Ukraine that obtain American funding however has maintained that they don't seem to be performing analysis with the intent to weaponize something.
Biden is an skilled politician that is aware of how harmful the U.S. complying with Zelensky's requests of building a no-fly zone and offering extra weapons could be, Lavrov stated. Lavrov believes that Zelensky is counting on "much less accountable" politicians in Congress and all over the world to strain Biden into offering extra assist and taking a extra confrontational stance with Russia, which is what he believes Zelensky desires.
"Any cargo shifting into Ukrainian territory which we'd consider is carrying weapons could be truthful sport," Lavrov stated of Russia's preparedness to "take away any risk to the Russian Federation coming from Ukrainian soil."
Lavrov additionally repeated a number of Russian claims, persevering with to name the invasion a "particular army operation" and stated Russia's objectives stay the identical, claiming that "denazification is an absolute should."
Replace 3/18/22, 1:35 p.m. ET: This story has been up to date with extra info.
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