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Sergey Lavrov warned the world is ‘possibly’ at an even more dangerous situation than during the Cold War.

Speaking at the UN Security Council, the Russian foreign minister claimed the West’s financial and economic ‘aggression’ is destroying the ‘benefits of globalisation’.

‘Let’s call a spade a spade,’ Putin’s mouthpiece told the delegates in New York.

‘Nobody allowed the Western minority to speak on behalf of all of humankind.

‘The United States and its allies are abandoning diplomacy, and demanding relations be clarified on the battlefield.

‘This is all done in the halls of the United Nations which was created to prevent the horrors of the war.’

Lavrov chaired the council meeting because Russia holds the council’s monthly rotating presidency this April.

UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres warned the risk of conflict between global powers was at a ‘historic high’.

Guterres criticised Russia’s invasion of Ukraine which he said caused massive suffering and fuelled global economic dislocation.

‘Tensions between major powers are at an historic high. So are the risks of conflict, through misadventure or miscalculation,’ Guterres said.

Security council members including the United States, France and the UK, condemned Russia for its war in Ukraine.

‘Our hypocritical convenor today, Russia, invaded its neighbor Ukraine and struck at the heart of the UN charter,’ Linda Thomas-Greenfield, US ambassador to the UN said.

She added: ‘This illegal, unprovoked, and unnecessary war runs directly counter to our most sacred principle: that a war of aggression and territorial conquest is never, ever acceptable.’

She also called for Russia to release Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and accused Russia of violating international law.

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