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Thought they are showing horror movie at 9 am: Russia's Lavrov on 9/11 attacks

short by Mini Tiwari / on Friday, 11 September, 2026
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov recalled his reaction to the 9/11 attacks when he was in New York serving as Russia's UN envoy. Watching it on CNN, he'd thought, "They're showing a horror movie at 9 am", before he realised and called his mother. Smoke had reached his office building 5-6 km away within an hour or two, he recalled.