Overview
- Russia’s foreign minister used a state TV interview, also posted by the ministry, to claim Washington ignores international law and acts to protect its own interests.
- He said the United States is willing to use coups, kidnappings, or killings to secure resources and pointed to oil as the motive in Venezuela and Iran.
- He alluded to the January capture of Venezuela’s Nicolás Maduro and the late‑February killing of Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in joint U.S.-Israeli strikes.
- He argued the United States pushed Europe to drop the Nord Stream gas link to Germany and backed EU pressure on Hungary and Slovakia to limit Russian gas buys.
- He labeled Western policy a return to a colonial era and said even proposals to end the Ukraine war are sold in Washington as ‘huge economic opportunities.’