Iran Press/Europe: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said he hopes the West took "seriously" Moscow's recent use of a hypersonic missile in Ukraine, and warned that Russia was ready to use "any means" to defend itself.
The United States and its allies "must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia," Lavrov said in an interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson released Thursday.
Two weeks ago, Russia fired its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in a major escalation of the almost three-year war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has since threatened to use the weapon on Kyiv in response to Ukraine's strikes on Russia's territory.
Lavrov also regarding the developments in Syria said: "When this crisis began, we reached an agreement and established the Astana process with the participation of Russia,Türkiye, and Iran.
Stressing the need to "help the Syrians and prevent threats from separatists," he said that the United States supports "some Kurdish separatists" in eastern Syria. 219
