Other allies are directly at war with moscow. Lavrov also blamed the collapse of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticized kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their Total Inability to reach agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. The bbc spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weakness on ukraine
We begin in nagorno karabakh, where fears are growing of a potential humanitarian catastrophe after Military Action by azerbaijan. Thats the region that is internationally recognized as part of azerbaijan but large parts of it have been controlled by Ethnic Armenians for three decades. Tens of thousands of armenians have sought refuge in the main city, stepanakert, many of them gathering at the airport. They are coping with dwindling food, medicine and fuel supplies. In new york, azerbaijans foreign minister, jeyhun bayramov, told the Un General Assembly that baku was determined to reintegrate Karabakh Armenians as equal citizens but his armenian counterpart demanded the un establish a mission in the region to prevent further killings of Ethnic Armenians. The bbc s olga ivshina is one of the first journalists to have reached the region since this weeks hostilities began. She filed this report. This is the first time journalists have been allowed into karabakh since the start of recent
Of the black sea grain deal on ukraine. He further criticised kyiv s peace plan as not feasible or realistic. Heres mr lavrov addressing the Un General Assembly on saturday. Translation the collective west has a calling card and iti has long been to reject the principle of equality and their total inability to reach an agreement. Being used to looking down at the rest of the world, americans and europeans make all sorts of promises and they take on commitments inter alia, written ones and legally binding ones, and then, theyjust dont fulfil them. As President Putin pointed out, the west is one that is truly an empire of lies. Russia, like many countries, knows about this firsthand. The bbc spoke to phillips obrien, professor of strategic studies at st andrews university. He said a lot was missing from mr lavrov s address. It was a speech that you would say really comes from a Point Of View of weakness on ukraine that he couldnt even mention the ukraine war, that there was no discussion
WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Gualberto Ramirez, 49, was walking home from the cinema at around 6pm when he went to sit down on a bench in Wormwood Scrubs park Lane to soak up some evening sunshine