Russian Foreign Ministry Sergey Lavrov's interview with US journalist Tucker Carlson generated countless headlines in global media. Foreign agencies gave their overview of the interview and eventually assumed that Lavrov's interview came as a warning to the USA and its allies.
Shortly before the interview was published, Bloomberg news agency published an article in which it was indicated that Carlson's meeting with Lavrov took place at a time when diplomatic efforts to cease fire in Ukraine were intensifying. The article also drew attention to the fact that the Russian troops continued their advance in the special military operation zone.
"Carlson said he'd met Lavrov to learn whether Trump's election would "mean an end to this war,” in a video posted on the X social-media platform. He said he also wanted to know if Russia and the US are "headed toward an unprecedented conflict” after President Joe Biden's outgoing administration allowed Ukraine to use American long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia," the agency wrote.
French TV channel France 24 said that the Russian minister accused the Biden administration of escalating the conflict in Ukraine and trying to intimidate Russia and other countries on the international stage. Most of the material was devoted to Lavrov's remarks about the Ukrainian conflict. The channel quoted him as saying that Moscow was "ready for any developments, but prefers a peaceful solution through negotiations."
"Speaking about the peace agreement, the senior Russian diplomat said that, among other demands, Kyiv would have to agree to Russia's claims to control over the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhia regions,” the channel noted.
"Lavrov signals readiness to use any means in Ukraine conflict," a Reuters article headline reads. The article also quotes the minister as saying that Russia is fighting for its legitimate security interests, while the United States is fighting "to maintain its hegemony in the world, in any country, region, on any continent.”
"If they are following the logic which some Westerners have been pronouncing lately, that they don't believe that Russia has red lines, they announced their red lines, these red lines are being moved again and again, this is a very serious mistake," he said.
The Times of India claimed that during the conversation with Carlson, Lavrov "made a chilling warning to the United States."
"Lavrov said U. S. and its allies should took the signals seriously, referring to the Oreshnik missiles. He said that they must understand that we would be ready to use any means not to allow them to succeed in what they call strategic defeat of Russia," The Times of India wrote.