Russia's Lavrov needles Biden over Cuban missile crisis and Ukraine

FILE PHOTO: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attends a joint news conference with Secretary-General of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha in Moscow, Russia October 24, 2022. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/Pool

LONDON (Reuters) -President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister on Sunday needled Joe Biden over Ukraine, saying that he hoped the U.S. president had the wisdom to deal with a global confrontation similar to the 1962 Cuban missile crisis.

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the Cuban crisis when the Soviet Union and United States came close to nuclear war.