On Ukraine, Russia repeats insistence that it had no choice
Russia has told the world that it has “no choice” but to take military action in Ukraine
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Russia made its case to the world Saturday for its war in Ukraine, repeating a series of grievances about its neighbor and the West to tell the U.N. General Assembly meeting of world leaders that Moscow had “no choice” but to take military action.
At the heart of Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov's address was a claim that the United States and its allies are aggressively undermining the international system that the U.N. represents — not, as the West maintains, the other way around.
“The future of the world is being decided today,” he said, and “the question is whether or not it is going to be the kind of order with one hegemon at the head of it.”
His speech was Russia's chance to respond to days of denunciations from the podium at the premier annual gathering of presidents, premiers, monarchs and government ministers.
