MOSCOW, July 29. /TASS/. The West has been promoting Vladimir Zelensky’s terrorism as a pivotal swing in the Ukraine conflict in the hope that this will finally bring Russia to its knees, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told TASS Director General Andrey Kondrashov in an interview.

"They can see how many of his long-range weapons reach designated targets, and they have been promoting the current developments as a turning point, in the story that the Ukrainian character is capable of defeating the 'aggressor' Russia, which was seeking to conquer entire Europe after Ukraine. Hence renewed calls to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia and decolonize Russia, overtly implying yet another attempt to tear our country down," Russia’s top diplomat said.

According to Lavrov, Western hopes dating back to the demise of the Soviet Union, when waves of separatism swept over the Far East, the Urals and the Caucasus, have been revived. Back then, he said, "they cherished the hope that all this would now fall apart so they can `snatch’ bits of it." "I assume they were even judging who would get what," the foreign minister concluded.