Daily Mail UK
This is the astonishing moment dozens of diplomats from around the world today walked out during a speech by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a Geneva disarmament conference in protest against Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Diplomats from countries including Britain, United States and France stood up and filed out of the room when Lavrov’s pre-recorded video message to the U.N. Human Rights Council began to play.
During his speech, the foreign minister blamed Ukraine for the war and claimed Kyiv has been seeking to acquire nuclear weapons – a ‘real danger’ that required a Russian response.