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Russia Warns Putin Can Destroy Europe in 'Short Nuclear War'

  • On Tuesday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told reporters at the 81st United Nations General Assembly in New York that he has "no doubt that this is a war Europe is waging against us."
  • During his speech to the Security Council on Wednesday, Sept. 23, Lavrov described the war in Ukraine as a "special operation," asserting that Ukraine would have kept its 1991 borders if European nations had not engaged in their "shenanigans."
  • Dismissing warnings of a Russian attack on Europe as "nonsense," Lavrov argued Western arms investments could become a "self-fulfilling prophecy." Putin similarly claimed on Friday, Sept. 25, that Russia is "not preparing for any military action against Europe."
  • A joint statement signed by 51 countries on Wednesday, Sept. 23, urged Moscow to agree to a full ceasefire and enter meaningful negotiations to end the conflict.
  • President Volodymyr Zelensky warned during the New York summit that Russia might target another European country with drones or missiles to fracture Western unity, following Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev's threat two weeks earlier to wipe Lithuania "off the map.
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The Kremlin warns that "the chances of the world being dragged into a new conflict are the greatest since 1945"

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Russian top diplomat rejects European accusations that Russia's strikes on vessels carrying Western weapons to Ukraine amounted to 'hybrid covert war'

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today in response to a question from a British journalist about accusations by the West that Moscow is waging a hybrid war against European countries, that in fact it is Europe that is at war with Russia, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA. “Do you mean that we are destroying drones and missiles that Britain and continental Europe are supplying to Ukraine, and with which it is shelling us? Is that what yo…

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“I have no doubt that this is a war that Europe is waging against us,” said Sergei Lavrov, referring to the arms supplies that Europe is providing to Ukraine. The post Lavrov: Europe is waging a war against Russia appeared first on in.gr.

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Aporrea broke the news on Saturday, September 26, 2026.
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