Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has publicly claimed that NATO and the EU have declared war on Russia through Ukraine.
He declared this at a G20 foreign ministers’ meeting on the 25th of September: “A clear example is the crisis in Ukraine, provoked by the collective West, through which NATO and the European Union … have already declared a real war on my country and are directly participating in it”.
This comes in the context of Russia circulating drones over Europe, from as far east as Romania to as west as Denmark, thus provoking NATO by violating international law and sabotaging infrastructure.
He reiterated the narrative that the war in Ukraine was provoked by the West, and added now that this has gone past indirect support.
The Kremlin now uses the word “war” instead of “special operation”, which is what they termed the 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Lavrov condemned the disaster in Gaza as a NATO failure.
But Russia has even violated its own laws: Russia’s constitution forbids Russia to be at war unless their own territory is being attacked.
NATO and the EU, meanwhile, stall on retaliating and ignore provocations, building on their defense.
Donald Trump has shifted his previously neutral attitude, recently musing that Russia’s military is a “paper tiger”.
