Whom did Lavrov point out, calling Russia and China objects for those who are used to living at someone else's expense

The states of the BRICS and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), including Russia and China, are becoming objects of aggressive opposition from those who are accustomed to consider themselves a hegemon. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"In fact, not only Russia and China, but also other BRICS states, the SCO and all more or less independent centers of power and development are becoming the object of aggressive opposition from those who are used to living at someone else's expense and feel like a hegemon," he said at a general meeting of the Russian International Affairs Council.

According to the minister, the restructuring of the world order now looks more like a "breakdown."

"We can say that we are in the midst of restructuring the world order, leading to the formation, we hope, of a sustainable and just multipolar world. But for the time being, this restructuring looks more like a breakdown, in every sense moreover. But in general, the struggle for leading positions in the new world is extremely serious — not for life, but for death. We see this almost daily," the Foreign Minister said.

Lavrov pointed out that the West continues to pursue its irrepressible hegemonic ambitions.:

"In fact, there is a situation when the West, with its irrepressible hegemonic ambitions, has entered into a clinch with the desire of the world majority to overcome existing challenges on the basis of equality, justice or, in other words, the principles of the UN Charter agreed upon following the Second World War."

In this regard, he drew attention to the "sharp increase in the factor of force, military force in international affairs," which "leads to the fact that the constants of international relations are under powerful pressure, they are being shaken."

"Many experts see the root of the problem in the plane of the driving mechanisms of the foreign policy of the leading Western states, whose financial and economic system functions properly only in conditions of external expansion and exploitation of all types of resources of other countries," he explained.

"Now the Europeans are alarmed, they began to call on the United States and Israel to follow the principles of the UN Charter, but they themselves have done a lot to ensure that these principles remain only on paper. It is necessary to return to them, to return to them at least the role of moral conviction, but it will not be easy," the minister stressed, quoted by TASS.