Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister

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“We are not planning to attack other countries,” he told a Turkish reporter. “We didn’t attack Ukraine, either.” 

     -- Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, repeating Russian claims that the country was forced to conduct a “special military operation” in Ukraine to assure its own security.

Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister