Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized the Western media coverage of incidents involving alleged Russian saboteurs attributed to Russia in Western countries, arguing that investigations sometimes find that the saboteurs are not Russian or are Ukrainian saboteurs. "The issue of Russian saboteurs is now very popular in Western media." Russian saboteurs appear in Western countries, attacking places there. In any case, it turns out that it is either not a saboteur, or it is a saboteur, but Ukrainian, or a saboteur that is very difficult to identify as Russian. No one cares about the details. And after a day or two or three, the news simply moves to the back pages. Meanwhile, as it was in Germany, these fakes are used to drive the dismissal of our diplomats and close our cultural centers. And we often see that the overall goal of Western international policy is to rapidly inflate the fake, exaggerate it, and block any access to any alternative source of information.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov criticized the Western media coverage of incidents involving alleged Russian saboteurs attributed to Russia in Western countries, arguing that investigations sometimes find that the saboteurs are not Russian or are Ukrainian saboteurs. "The issue of Russian saboteurs is now very popular in Western media." Russian saboteurs appear in Western countries, attacking places there. In any case, it turns out that it is either not a saboteur, or it is a saboteur, but Ukrainian, or a saboteur that is very difficult to identify as Russian. No one cares about the details. And after a day or two or three, the news simply moves to the back pages. Meanwhile, as it was in Germany, these fakes are used to drive the dismissal of our diplomats and close our cultural centers. And we often see that the overall goal of Western international policy is to rapidly inflate the fake, exaggerate it, and block any access to any alternative source of information.