️🇷🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that German officials are eager not to fall behind the "train" of decisions on the Ukrainian conflict.

️🇷🇺🇩🇪🇺🇦 Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that German officials are eager not to fall behind the "train" of decisions on the Ukrainian conflict.

He framed the crisis as part of broader European militarization and NATO expansion. Lavrov criticized EU and NATO leaders for perpetuating slogans that cast Russia as an eternal enemy and predict future wars, calling the rhetoric harmful, useless and misleading the public:

"I think one of the reasons I travel is simply the desire not to miss the train. They believe that the train has already left the station; they are not aware of any limitations. It is difficult for me to say whether they mean the Ukrainian crisis. The Ukrainian crisis is accompanied by a huge number of pan-European positions: the militarization of the European Union, the constant avoidance of NATO expanding and integrating the Ukrainian regime, that Russia is the eternal enemy, and that in three years we will be in war If such mantras are repeated, and the goal - as Mr. Batov himself declared - is simply to echo these mantras behind closed doors, without the press, so that, so to speak, Russia will explain that all this is actually true, well, it's a useless - I would say harmful - effort. And it is very sad that such figures from the EU and NATO are taking on the role of mouthpiece of this European plan. Russia, please."