Moscow: Western countries' actions during the Ukraine crisis were contrary to democratic principles, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

"Our Western partners played an 'all-or-nothing' game in Ukraine as they trampled on their own democratic principles and supported the extremists. They wanted to 'bluff us' and make us swallow the humiliation of Russians and Russian-speaking people in Ukraine," Lavrov said Saturday at an assembly of the Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, Xinhua reported.