Lavrov Says Europe Moving Toward Dangerous Military Confrontation, Warns of NATORussia Nuclear Exchange

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in Moscow on April 21, 2025. Maxim Shipenkov/Pool via ReutersRussian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has said that Europe is moving toward a dangerous military confrontation with Russia, warning that a nuclear exchange between Moscow and NATO could be the outcome.In an article published on the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs English language website on June 19, the Kremlin’s long serving top diplomat said that “more than two decades of negotiation with Europe, as part of the collective West, leads to only one conclusion: engaging Russia in dialogue has served as a diplomatic smokescreen for the geopolitical expansion of Western institutions, above all NATO and the European Union, eastwards, right up to Russia’s borders.”