{"id":299952,"date":"2024-12-07T06:04:17","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:04:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299952"},"modified":"2024-12-08T08:01:42","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T08:01:42","slug":"russia-will-use-any-means-to-defend-itself-lavrov-tells-tucker-carlson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299952","title":{"rendered":"Russia will use &#8216;any means&#8217; to defend itself, Lavrov tells Tucker Carlson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, in an interview broadcast on Thursday, said the use of a hypersonic missile in the Ukraine war sought to make the West understand that Moscow was ready to use any means to ensure no &#8220;strategic defeat&#8221; would be inflicted on Moscow.<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>France 24 \u2013 Dec 6, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/russia\/\">Russian<\/a> Foreign Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/sergei-lavrov\/\">Sergei Lavrov<\/a> on Thursday said he hopes the West took &#8220;seriously&#8221; Moscow&#8217;s recent use of a hypersonic missile in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/ukraine\/\">Ukraine<\/a>, and warned that Russia was ready to use &#8220;any means&#8221; to defend itself.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/tag\/usa\/\">United States<\/a> and its allies &#8220;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,&#8221; Lavrov said in an interview with US media personality Tucker Carlson released Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin has since threatened to use the weapon on Kyiv in response to Ukraine&#8217;s strikes on Russia&#8217;s territory.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are sending signals and we hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapons system called Oreshnik&#8230; was taken seriously,&#8221; Lavrov said.<\/p>\n<p>While he insisted that Russia doesn&#8217;t want to escalate the situation and wants to &#8220;avoid any misunderstanding&#8221; with Washington and its partners, Lavrov warned that &#8220;we will send additional messages if they don&#8217;t draw necessary conclusions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Putin said the Oreshnik missile flies at 10 times the speed of sound and cannot be intercepted by air defenses.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has called the strike &#8220;the latest bout of Russian madness&#8221; and appealed for updated air-defense systems to meet the new threat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/europe\/20241206-lavrov-says-russia-ready-to-use-any-means-to-defend-itself-ukraine-weapons\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The implication being that Moscow will use Weapons of Mass Destruction if pushed <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":50382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299952","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299953,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299952\/revisions\/299953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/50382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}