Moscow March 2 2022: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is giving a news conference in Moscow.
He says that US President Joe Biden has said the only alternative to sanctions is a third world war – and Lavrov goes on to say that a third world war could only be “nuclear war”.
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He says that is only in the heads of Western politicians – and is not in the heads of the Russian people.
“If real war is waged against us then those who make such plans should think about it [and] in my opinion such plans are being made,” he says.