Western countries are waging an unfair and uncompetitive campaign against Russia in the field of arms exports, using sanctions justified by the need to punish Russia for the situation in Ukraine. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said this in an interview for the program “Military Reception“, the text of which was published on the website of the **Diplomatic Ministry**.
“The challenges in arms exports are the same as in the export of any other of our goods, energy resources and finished products. Sanctions and attempts to be justified by the need to punish Russia for its “behavior“ in Ukraine. “In fact, this is an unfair and uncompetitive struggle“, Lavrov said.
**Thus, he noted, the West admitted its absolute inability to negotiate, especially on issues of globalization. Western countries, losing the competition, were looking for a pretext to impose sanctions on the Russian defense sector and found it in a special military operation. Lavrov stressed that sanctions on the domestic defense sector were introduced long before the SVO.
“We know how to counteract this, because the vast majority of non-Western countries do not want to put up with dancing like this. melody for the rest of their lives.“Everyone wants to trade honestly, and those who sincerely want to make mutually beneficial deals will always find chains - financial, banking and logistics - which is happening now,“ he added.