Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow on March 24, 2022.KIRILL KUDRYAVTSEV/POOL/AFP via Getty Images A long-serving Russian diplomat quit his post in dramatic fashion on Monday, per multiple reports. Boris Bondarev, formerly Russia's representative to the UN in Geneva, resigned in a scathing letter. He slammed the war in Ukraine, Russian oligarchs, and Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. A top Russian diplomat has resigned his post with a scathing letter attacking Russia's war in Ukraine and what he described as his country's political degradation, according to multiple reports.