# Lavrov says the West destroys European security and fuels war by arming Kyiv

https://mins.news/en/video/75402

- Al Jazeera English, 2026-09-26 16:29 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWSh7uo8OEA

> At the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said “tectonic shifts” were creating a fairer multipolar world led by the Global South and East. He accused a “Western minority” of defending centuries-old privileges through force, sanctions and double standards, and defended Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine as protecting people in Donbas and Novorossiya.

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