Present at the G20 summit in Rio de Janeiro, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov was the first Russian official of this rank to speak about the strike carried out on the night of November 19 by the Ukrainian army, in aid of American ATACMS missiles, against targets in Russia. He described this first use of ATACMS as “new phase” in the war and accused the West of seeking “climbing”.
In the process, he brandished the text of the Russian doctrine on nuclear deterrence, which had just been amended at the express request of Vladimir Putin, and advised Western leaders to read it. “carefully and to the end”, as recalled by the official agency Interfax. In its new version, this doctrine considerably relaxes the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in the event of external aggression.
A few hours earlier, this same Sergei Lavrov had taken part in the joint photo exercise with a smile. A ritual shunned by American President Joe Biden, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian colleague Giorgia Meloni.
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But not by the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who not only took part in the exercise, but also expressly left his place p
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