MOSCOW. July 12 (Interfax) - The armed confrontation in Ukraine will continue until the West abandons its plan to retain dominance and to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said.
"Why doesn't the armed confrontation in Ukraine come to an end? The answer is very simple, it will continue until the West gives up its plans to preserve its domination and overcome its obsessive desire to inflict on Russia a strategic defeat at the hands of its Kiev puppets," Lavrov said in an interview with the Indonesian newspaper Kompas.
"For the time being, there are no signs of change in this position," Lavrov said.
"It is telling that the West is ignoring the initiatives of the developing nations," he said.