Sergey Lavrov speaks during a joint news convention with his South Africa’s counterpart Naledi Pandor (Picture: AP)

Russia’s most sensible diplomat has as of late lashed out at the West’s fortify for Ukraine, stressing the warfare can no longer be outlined as a ‘hybrid conflict’.

As allies step up their army assist to the Ukrainian Military, Russian international minister Sergey Lavrov warned the war used to be ‘almost a real one’.

‘Once We talk about what is going down in Ukraine – it is a battle, now not a hybrid one, almost a real warfare, that the West has been plotting for a long time towards Russia,’ he mentioned during a diplomatic discuss with to South Africa nowadays.

‘The objective is to destroy the whole lot Russian, from language to culture, that has been in Ukraine for hundreds of years and to ban folks from speaking their mom tongue.’

He additionally claimed Russia was once willing to barter with Ukraine within the early months of the warfare, however the US and different Western nations urged Kyiv against this.

His feedback had been similar to the ones made ultimate 12 months by means of president Vladimir Putin, however no evidence has been presented to support them.