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The Russian foreign minister has shared his views on NATO expansion and EU militarization, including in the nuclear sphere, and the threat this poses to global security<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>The pro-establishment, Brussels-based publication Politico Europe<\/em>, owned by Germany\u2019s Axel Springer SE, has refused to publish an exclusive article written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.<\/p>\n

Lavrov\u2019s article was initially slated for publication in the Brussels-based Politico Europe<\/em>, but due to a \u201clast-minute decision by the outlet\u2019s editorial team,\u201d<\/em> the publication was canceled, the Russian Foreign Ministry said<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n

In the article, Russia\u2019s highly experienced top diplomat outlined Moscow\u2019s view of the Ukrainian conflict, Europe\u2019s role in escalating the crisis, and the broader implications for global security. Lavrov accused European leaders of using diplomacy as a cover for NATO and EU expansion, while arguing that the West has sought to turn Ukraine into an anti-Russian foothold. He also warned that the EU\u2019s growing militarization, including discussions about nuclear deterrence and \u201cstrategic autonomy,\u201d<\/em> could increase the risk of a direct confrontation between NATO and Russia.<\/p>\n

Below is the full text of Lavrov\u2019s article, as published on the Russian Foreign Ministry website:<\/p>\n

Some reflections on resolving the Ukrainian crisis, Europe and global security<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n

At a meeting in London on June 7, 2026, the leaders of Britain, France, and Germany, as well as Vladimir Zelensky, laid out five preconditions for Russia to secure a \u201cjust and lasting peace\u201d<\/em> in Ukraine. United Europe now presents this list of demands as the basis for dialogue with Moscow.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h3>\n

More than two decades of negotiations with Europe, as part of the collective West, lead 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\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s complicity in fueling the Ukrainian crisis is undeniable. Together with the United States, European countries orchestrated the Orange Revolution in Kiev in 2004. To create an anti-Russian bridgehead in Ukraine, they spent years buying off politicians and entire parties, rewriting history and educational curricula, cultivating and nurturing Ukrainian nationalism, and going to great lengths to pull Ukraine away from Russia.<\/p>\n

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Censored Lavrov interview with Italian media (FULL TEXT)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In 2013, the European Union outright rejected our proposal for a compromise on the association agreement \u2013 a deal Brussels had long been pressing Viktor Yanukovich to sign. It is worth recalling that Ukraine was offered unilateral market opening without reciprocal commitments \u2013 terms that would have proved incompatible with Kiev\u2019s continued membership in the CIS free-trade zone. When Viktor Yanukovich requested a deferral, the Europeans incited street riots that swiftly escalated into a coup d\u2019\u00e9tat in Kiev in February 2014.<\/p>\n

Germany, France, and Poland then proved themselves to be equally treacherous. Having guaranteed that the agreement reached between the opposition and Viktor Yanukovich would be honored, they washed their hands of it the moment that same opposition, their own handiwork, took power. \u201cDemocracy,\u201d<\/em> they shrugged, \u201ctakes unexpected turns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Europe thereafter lent its backing to the new authorities. In Odessa on May 2, 2014, the burning alive of dozens of innocent supporters of closer ties with Russia did not draw a single word of condemnation from European capitals.<\/p>\n

As co-guarantors of the 2015 Minsk Agreements, France and Germany effectively encouraged the Ukrainian regime to sabotage its own commitments. As Angela Merkel and Fran\u00e7ois Hollande later conceded \u2013 after the special military operation had already begun \u2013 Kiev\u2019s implementation of the Minsk Agreements, unanimously approved by the UN Security Council, was never genuinely intended. The objective, they admitted, was merely to buy time: to shore up the Armed Forces of Ukraine and flood them with Western weaponry.<\/p>\n

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Germany misses Nazism \u2013 Lavrov<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Russia, for its part, explored every diplomatic avenue to defuse Europe\u2019s security crisis. However, in January 2022, the United States and NATO rejected Russia\u2019s proposal for legally binding mutual security guarantees. European NATO members actively endorsed that rebuff.<\/p>\n

Following the launch of the special military operation, United Europe threw its support behind the British prime minister\u2019s efforts to sabotage the Istanbul negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Boris Johnson\u2019s appeal to Kiev\u00a0\u2013 \u201cdon\u2019t sign anything, just fight\u201d<\/em> \u2013 slammed the door on genuine diplomacy for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n

Current situation<\/h3>\n

So what has prompted European leaders to suddenly shift their rhetoric and start talking about negotiations, and what are they aiming to achieve with these statements? For instance, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas has stated that the purpose of any dialogue with Russia is to dictate Europe\u2019s terms. These include paying \u201creparations\u201d<\/em> to Ukraine; withdrawing troops from Transnistria and the South Caucasus; abolishing the \u201cforeign agents\u201d<\/em> law; and accepting strict limits on the size of the Russian Federation\u2019s Armed Forces. In her framing, \u201cthere can be no just and lasting peace without accountability for Russia.\u201d<\/em> During the UN Security Council session on May 19, 2026, an EU representative made the point unequivocally: \u201cSupporting Ukraine militarily does not contradict the pursuit of peace, but rather serves as a fundamental prerequisite for any credible, good-faith negotiations.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Europe\u2019s plan is to talk with Russia while simultaneously pressing ahead with a campaign of legal warfare orchestrated through the Council of Europe. Within this once-respected organization, an entire infrastructure is being assembled for the express purpose of \u201cholding Russia accountable\u201d<\/em>: a Register of Damage, a Claims Commission, and a Special Tribunal.<\/p>\n

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EU ditching prosperity to become anti-Russian military bloc \u2013 Lavrov<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The European Union has also given the green light to detaining merchant vessels on the high seas. Several incidents have already taken place in the Baltic and the Atlantic. At the same time, the West studiously averts its gaze from the terrorist acts of sabotage perpetrated by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the Black and Mediterranean Seas.<\/p>\n

The real objective of Europe\u2019s leaders, then, is not to negotiate with Russia. It is to shore up the Zelensky regime and preserve it as a launchpad for continued confrontation against Russia. With this in mind, European leaders are scrambling to secure a ceasefire as quickly as possible and for one reason only: to prevent the collapse of the Armed Forces of Ukraine on the battlefield. The plan is to \u201cfreeze\u201d<\/em> the conflict without addressing its root causes, and then rapidly deploy military contingents from the Anglo-French \u201ccoalition of the willing\u201d<\/em> onto Ukrainian soil.<\/p>\n

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It is widely known that European elites have invested their \u201cpolitical capital\u201d<\/em> in the confrontation with Russia, pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into propping up the Kiev regime and ramping up the military budgets of EU member states and NATO. Europe now aims to achieve \u201cdefense readiness\u201d<\/em> against Russia by 2030. Until then, they mean to buy time by whatever means are available. In a strikingly candid remark this April, Belgium\u2019s chief of staff put it bluntly: \u201cWe still have a few years. Thanks to the courage and blood of the Ukrainians, who are buying us that time.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

United Europe continues to dream of expansion. It intends to absorb Ukraine and Moldova while pulling Armenia into its sphere of influence. NATO has already expanded eastward, swallowing up Finland and Sweden. As for Ukraine, it is increasingly being eyed as the \u201cstriking fist\u201d<\/em> of a future European military force, independent of the United States and independent of NATO.<\/p>\n

Risks to global security<\/h3>\n

This state of affairs poses serious threats to global security. A direct confrontation between NATO and Russia could rapidly escalate into an exchange of nuclear strikes, with catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n

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G7 considering licensed arms production in Ukraine: Why now?<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Under the banner of \u201cstrategic autonomy,\u201d<\/em> Europe is witnessing a significant build-up of its military capabilities, including in the nuclear sphere. Paris\u2019s intention to extend its \u201cnuclear umbrella\u201d<\/em> to several EU and NATO member states is a source of deep concern. This will do nothing to strengthen the security of France itself or of the recipients of its so-called protection.<\/p>\n

For all that, Europe\u2019s political and military establishment continues to attribute aggressive plans to Russia \u2013 plans that, they claim, reach far beyond Ukraine. The Russian president has stated on numerous occasions that all of this is nonsense, provocation, and disinformation, aimed solely at extracting budget funds for the fight against Russia. That is scarcely the climate for substantive dialogue.<\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s position<\/h3>\n

As for negotiations, Vladimir Putin reiterated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum that Russia is not opposed to contacts with any party. We see Europe, however, as a party bent on Russia\u2019s defeat \u2013 a stance the Europeans themselves openly avow. Dialogue with Europe, therefore, cannot be conducted as though it were an impartial third-party observer.<\/p>\n

Russia would prefer to achieve the goals of the special military operation through diplomacy.<\/p>\n

That requires reliably guaranteeing security along Russia\u2019s western borders and ensuring respect and dignity for our citizens and compatriots, including the right to speak their native Russian language and practice the Orthodox Christian faith. Further military, political, and economic expansion by the West is unacceptable: it runs counter to the imperatives of a multipolar world.<\/p>\n

European leaders should recognize that the model of regional security built in Europe over decades, ever since the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act in 1975, has been destroyed by their own hands. And it will never be restored. We must now move toward creating a continent-wide security architecture open to all Eurasian countries and reflective of today\u2019s multipolar reality.<\/p>\n

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European envoys meet Russian deputy FM on Ukraine<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The principle of equal and indivisible security, trampled upon by the Euro-Atlanticists, can be embodied within a new Eurasian architecture. When the time is ripe, Europe too will be able to join this great effort.<\/p>\n

The key point is that meaningful dialogue requires the restoration of trust, shattered by the anti-Russian actions of the West, and Europe as part of it, in the post-Cold War era. Trust can be recovered only through concrete steps that demonstrate a sincere commitment to moving away from using diplomacy as a cover for expansionist ambitions. Trust cannot be restored, nor can dialogue be resumed, through ultimatums such as the one issued to Russia in London on June 7, 2026.<\/p>\n

P.S.<\/strong> It is noteworthy that the London ultimatum was unequivocally reaffirmed by the ambassadors of Britain, France, and Germany at the meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 11, 2026 \u2013 a meeting they had so insistently requested. That was the sole purpose of their visit to the ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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