Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Thursday that Moscow would do all it could to"sober up" the European Union and NATO, which he accused of setting out to weaken and defeat Russia.
Nearly 11 months after invading Ukraine, Russia is increasingly presenting the war to its own people as an existential battle with the West. In televised comments, Lavrov said Moscow would set out to disabuse Western politicians of their"presumptuous" and"colonial" attitudes to Russia. He was speaking during a visit to Moscow's close ally Belarus, which is staging air exercises with Russia this week - part of a long series of joint military activities that have drawn concern from Ukraine that President Vladimir Putin may seek to draw Belarus into the war on Russia's side.
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