Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Western attempts to maintain dominance in the world and return to a unipolar world were illusions, Russia's TASS news agency reported Friday.

Speaking at the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund meeting on Friday, he said "a real hybrid war, total war" was declared on Russia with an aim to "destroy, break, annihilate, strangle the Russian economy, and Russia on the whole."

Lavrov said that the vast majority of countries in the world will not join the "games" of the collective West regarding the use of sanctions against Russia.

"The vast majority of states are interested in the development of equal inter-state cooperation, based on key principles, cemented in the UN Charter. First and foremost, the principle of sovereign equality of states," he was quoted as saying by TASS.

The diplomat further noted that Russia has "many friends, allies, partners in the world, a huge number of associations in which Russia is working with countries of all continents, and we will continue to do so."