Russian foreign minister issues nuclear power warning in UN speech

Sergei Lavrov addresses the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (Pamela Smith/AP/PA)

Russia’s top diplomat has warned against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power” in a speech at the UN General Assembly on Saturday.

Sergei Lavrov’s address was packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere — including inside the UN itself.