Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov commented on the large-scale fires raging in California and said that they were causing great damage, while in the United States there was supposedly “poverty at every step,” Russian media reported.

Sergey Lavrov, at the annual final conference, responded to the fires in Los Angeles. According to him, the fire caused great damage to the United States, which can be estimated approximately with US aid to Ukraine.

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The Russian Foreign Minister further stated that while in the United States, he saw poverty on American streets.

“Probably, what we see and what we saw during many international events, for example, during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit, which was held in San Francisco, the United States has a lot of problems, there is poverty at every step, if you get off the central highways,” Lavrov said.

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It should be noted that the average monthly salary in the USA is about $5 (211 hryvnias), while in Russia the average salary is 74 rubles, or $725 (30,5 hryvnias). Thus, the average salary in the USA is seven times higher than in Russia.