Russian FM Says European Leaders Want & Are Preparing For War With Russia

Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has accused top European officials of actively preparing for war with Russia.

He said that European leaders,including NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, had all made statements that suggest the West is seriously getting ready for war.

Lavrov added that they were not even trying to hide the fact that they wanted a direct conflict.

RT reports: Speaking at a press conference on the results of Russian diplomatic activities in 2025, Lavrov pointed to remarks by the EU’s foreign policy chief, Kaja Kallas, and other politicians such as European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and the leaders of Germany, France, and the UK. “They are seriously preparing for war against the Russian Federation, and, in fact, are not even hiding it.”

The foreign minister added that while Russia is determined to “eliminate the root causes” of the Ukraine conflict, it is the West that has been “deliberately creating” these issues for many years in an effort to turn Ukraine into a “threat to Russia’s security.”

He noted that although the goal of inflicting a “strategic defeat” on Moscow is not expressed by Western leaders as often these days, their actions suggest that the idea is still alive in their “minds and plans,” pointing to the continued support of the “openly Nazi regime” in Kiev and its course for the “legislative and physical extermination of everything Russian.”

Russia has rejected Western claims that it poses a threat to any foreign countries, dismissing it as “nonsense” and fearmongering meant to justify inflated military budgets across Europe.

Nevertheless, Poland, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia have continued to push the claims and recently withdrew from international treaties banning anti-personnel landmines, and have announced plans to produce and deploy them along their borders with Russia.