A crowd at an event in India appeared to laugh at Russia's foreign minister Sergei Lavrov after he said the Ukraine conflict was "launched against us".
Mr Lavrov was speaking at the 'Raisina Dialogue' in Delhi yesterday after attending a G20 meeting of foreign ministers.
Responding to a question on energy, he said: "The war which we are trying to stop and which was launched against us using Ukrainian people..." before he was interrupted by laughter.
The loud laughter from the audience caused him to momentarily pause his address.
Russia invaded Ukraine a year ago in what the Kremlin calls a "special military operation".
Mr Lavrov went on to say that Russia would no longer rely on the West as energy partners and would "not allow them to blow the pipelines again".
He added: "By the way, we asked for an investigation and immediately this investigation request was denied. The Americans called it 'nonsense'. And when Seymour Hersh published his findings, you saw what the reaction of Europeans and Americans was. Germany was humiliated - physically, morally and in any other way."
Moscow has suggested that Western countries were responsible for the blasts that damaged the Nord Stream pipelines in September, an assertion they have dismissed, and has called for an international investigation.
