New Delhi, June 15 -- that the conflict consuming Ukraine is not Russia's war at all. It is the West's.

this war does not stop," Lavrov told reporters after the meeting. "Everything must be done to ensure that justice prevails."

The statement landed in a city that has become, over four years of sustained conflict, something of a relay station for Russia's geopolitical positioning. Minsk hosted the agreements that bore its name and that Russia later repudiated. Now Lavrov is back, and the register has shifted from negotiation to adjudication. The question of what Lukashenko said in response - what, if anything, he pushed back on or endorsed - was not disclosed.

The visit was the second consecutive day Lavrov spent in the Belarusian capi...