Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Archival photoMOSCOW, Feb. 15Russia will do what it needs on its territory, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, commenting on Western criticism of the military exercises of the Russian Federation and Belarus. «But I emphasize that we will do on our territory what we need, what we consider necessary for our security,” Lavrov said after talks with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau. “We reject the attempt of our Western colleagues to interpret the OSCE principles and commitments on the indivisibility of security supposedly they know better how to ensure the security of Russia. We must stop with this arrogance. And we must stop with Russophobia,» the minister added. >Sands about the return of the military after the exercises: there is no novelty in this
