July 12, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has warned that Western European leaders are dragging the continent toward war against Moscow.
Lavrov said at a news conference on Friday that European leaders’ actions and rhetoric all indicate that they are in favor of war against Russia.
News coming from London, Paris, and Berlin says “they are once again trying to prepare Europe for war – not some hybrid war, but a real war against Russia.”
Russia’s top diplomat listed the “denazification” of eastern Ukraine as one of Moscow’s main objectives through its ongoing military campaign.
Moscow condemns the growing militarization of the European Union, which has stirred divisions within the EU bloc, while denouncing the flooding of Ukraine with Western-backed weapons and munitions as part of the US-led NATO proxy war against Russia.
Moscow has repeatedly warned Western European leaders that their continued support for the “Nazi regime in Kiev” could lead to a new armed conflict with Russia decades after the end of World War II.
“They have forgotten the conclusions that all of humanity once drew from those lessons,” the Kremlin’s top diplomat said.
The Kremlin says that the Russian leadership prefers a peaceful solution to the Ukraine conflict. However, it warned that conditions on the ground are rapidly evolving while Kiev balks at a third round of direct negotiations.
Lavrov said that the Kremlin will take the European leaders’ war-lusting stance and their move toward militarization “into account in all areas of our strategic planning.”
Since the Ukraine war began in February 2022, the US-led Western countries have provided Ukraine with tens of billions of dollars worth of military equipment, guns, and munitions.
Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said last month that Berlin plans to give Kiev an additional 1.9 billion euros (2.2 billion US dollars) in military aid this year.
“I can say that Germany began this year with plans to provide €4 billion ($4.6 billion) in support for Ukraine,” Pistorius announced in a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. “We have increased this to €7 billion ($8.1 billion) over the past few months.”
“We are deeply convinced that it is the duty of the Europeans to continue to support Ukraine,” he said.
According to Pistorius, the money allocated to Kiev will finance a German-backed arms production line for manufacturing long-range weapons in Ukraine.
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