https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/03/25/live-updates-lavrov-russia-is-facing-total-war-from-west/ > MOSCOW — Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Russia is facing total war declared by the West. > Lavrov said at a meeting on Friday that “a real hybrid war, total war was declared on us.” He said the goal was “to destroy, break, annihilate, strangle the Russian economy, and Russia on the whole.”