Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday "a total, hybrid war" is being waged by the West against Russia,  TASS reported.

Speaking at a meeting of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund in Moscow, Lavrov said: "Today we have been declared a real hybrid war, a total war.

"This term (total war) which was used by Hitler's Germany, is now voiced by many European politicians when they talk about what they want to do with Russia.

The goals are not hidden, they declared publicly -- to destroy, break, exterminate, strangle the Russian economy and Russia as a whole," he noted.

Lavrov also said that by bullying Russia, the Western politicians forget and betray the values that they were proclaiming for a long time, including the freedom of speech, market economy, inviolability of private property, and presumption of innocence.

"As soon as the West had to do something against Russia, they easily betrayed those values," he said.

He urged the members of the Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Fund to consider the geopolitical situation, and make an accent on the development of cooperation with countries that did not join "the anti-Russian hysteria."