Lavrov: West declares total war on Russian world

The West has declared a total war on Russia and the Russian world, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

"The West has declared a total war on us, on the Russian World. Nobody makes any secret of this," Lavrov said at a meeting of the Council of the heads of Russia’s constituent territories at the Foreign Ministry.

Lavrov warned that the Western policy of "cancelling" Russia would continue for a long time.

He also noted that the U.S. and its satellites are gradually stepping up efforts to contain Russia. "You see how the United States and its satellites are doubling, tripling, quadrupling their efforts to contain our country, using the widest toolkit: from unilateral economic sanctions to outright false propaganda in the global media space," the minister said, "And in many Western countries Russophobia has become unprecedented, which, to our great regret, is encouraged by government circles in many countries."