NATO and the EU have declared a real war on Russia, - Lavrov

Lavrov said that the crisis in Ukraine was provoked by the West as a whole, and that NATO and the EU have declared a real war on Russia through Ukraine and are directly involved in it, according to Ukrainska Pravda.

On September 24, Lavrov met with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who called on Russia to take significant steps toward a lasting settlement of the war and repeated Trump's call to end the bloodshed.

Photo: Russian Foreign Ministry.