Russia’s Foreign Ministry has ratcheted up tensions with NATO, accusing the Western military alliance of waging war on Russia. Speaking at a G20 conference on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, ”NATO and the European Union want to declare, in fact, have already declared a real war on my country and are directly participating in it.” His comments come days after President Trump suggested that Ukraine could claw back its territory taken by Russia.
Meanwhile, Denmark reported to NATO that “state actors” were responsible for drone incursions that shut down two airports — that’s according to Latvia’s foreign minister speaking to Reuters. Germany’s Defense Minister Boris Pistorius went further and blamed Russia for the drone incursions.
Boris Pistorius: “The suspicion is obvious: This is part of Vladimir Putin’s strategy, without us being able to say anything concrete in this case. But it is part of what we experience every day. We are not at war, but we are also no longer at complete peace. We are being attacked both in disinformation campaigns and now also by drones.”