Alwaght- The United States encourages dangerous military activities at Russian borders in Europe, and this policy jeopardizes the European security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Portuguese daily newspaper Publico.
"The crisis in Ukraine - the result of the geopolitical games of the United States and its ideological followers in some countries, and also the blindness of the European Union’s bureaucracy have crushed the atmosphere of trust, which the responsible leaders of Russia and key European states had been working to create over many years," Lavrov stressed.
Moscow is seriously concerned that "Brussels has not only sacrificed its principles and values and shut its eyes to the armed coup in Kiev that overthrew the democratically elected president but has also followed Washington’s directive by joining the anti-Russia sanctions," the Russian foreign minister noted.
"What do we have now?" Lavrov said.
"The architecture of the Russia-EU dialogue has been seriously disrupted and European producers are sustaining multi-billion losses, the Kiev regime is conducting a war against its own people and a new conflict has emerged in Europe," Lavrov said.
"The United States, however, is not sustaining any losses," the Russian foreign minister stressed.
"Moreover, it is exploiting the situation for stepping up dangerous military activity near Russian borders, unleashing an arms race in our neighborhood where, as we all hoped, there is no room for a new ‘Cold War,’" Lavrov said.
The security of the peoples in Europe "is becoming hostage to the disruptive policy being conducted from the other side of the Ocean", the Russian foreign minister stressed.
Moscow sees a growing number of those in Europe who understand that the confrontational policy towards Russia holds no prospects, Lavrov added.
