"This was probably wishful thinking, there is such a way to convey what our Western colleagues experienced yesterday and Saturday evening. I got acquainted with how events in Russia are covered," Lavrov said in an interview with RT.
Foreign Partners Declared Their Solidarity to Russia
"Numerous calls to [Russian] President [Vladimir] Putin, which were used by his colleagues to express solidarity, support, confidence that the situation will be under control, that it will be returned to the constitutional field, as, in fact, it turned out. I also had several phone conversations at the initiative of my foreign colleagues. Many of them expressed the same thoughts: solidarity … We were asked not to talk about their calls publicly, so we try not to do this," Russian FM told RT.
Lavrov on Macron’s Words on Prigozhin’s Mutiny
"I think ... [everyone] will understand the position advocated by Macron, who clearly sees in the current development of events as a chance to realize the threat, like a mantra repeated by NATO leaders, that Ukraine inflict a strategic defeat on Russia. Naturally, not Ukraine, but the entire Western camp," Lavrov noted in an interview.