Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov accused US President Joe Biden's administration of escalating the conflict in Ukraine "to leave a legacy to the Trump administration as bad as they can."
In an interview with the US media personality Tucker Carlson, Lavrov said, "It is becoming also clear that there is a fatigue in some capitals and there are talks every now and then that the Americans would like to leave it with the Europeans and to concentrate on something more important."

" I wouldn't guess we would be judging by specific steps. It's obvious though that Biden administration would like to leave legacy to the Trump administration as bad as they can," he added.
This statement came as Biden has allowed the first use of long-range US missiles by Ukraine to intensify its strikes on Russia, US officials said.
After which, Russia fired its new Oreshnik hypersonic missile on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro in an escalation of the almost three-year war. After using the weapon, Lavrov addressed the press and said, "We are sending signals and we hope that the last one, a couple of weeks ago, the signal with the new weapons system called Oreshnik... was taken seriously."
Talking about the signal that Russia sent to West, Lavrov said, "Well, the message is that you, I mean you, the United States and the allies, who provide this long range weapons to the Kyiv regime, 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."
In the interview, Carlson asked, "Have you spoken to any officials in the Biden administration since then [G20 2022 summit]?" To which Lavrov responded, "I don't want to ruin their career."