Russian foreign minister tells United Nations any aggression against Russia will be met with ‘decisive response’

United Nations – With the rise in new tensions between Russia and NATO forces, the best diplomat in Moscow insisted on world leaders on Saturday that his nation does not intend to attack Europe, but it will include a “decisive response” to any aggression.

Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov spoke to the United Nations General Assembly a few weeks later, where unauthorized flights in NATO airspace – coalition interventions blaming Russia – sparked an alert throughout Europe, especially after NATO planes dropped drones over Poland and Estonia said that Russian combat aircraft turned into their territory for 12 minutes.

Russia denied that its aircraft in the Astony aircraft said that the drones did not target Poland, as the Moscow ally maintained that the formulation of Ukrainian signals sent devices outside the path.

But European leaders see that accidents are intended moves, aimed at NATO and wandering how the coalition will respond. The coalition Russia warned this week that NATO will use all means to defend any other violations of its air field.

Russian Foreign Affairs Minister Sergey Lavrov addresses the eighties of the United Nations General Assembly, on Saturday, September 27, 2025, at the United Nations headquarters.

(AP Photo/Pamela Smith)

At the United Nations, Lavrov kept Russia facing threats.

“Russia had never had no such intentions,” he said to attack European or NATO countries. “However, any aggression against my decisive response will be faced. There should be no doubt about this between those in NATO and the European Union.”

He speaks three years in the Ukraine war

Lavrov spoke three years in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, a war that has exhausted the international community on a large scale.

US President Donald Trump said this week he believes that Ukraine can win all the lands it lost to Russia. A noticeable transformation was a tone from an American leader who had previously suggested that Ukraine would need to make some concessions and have never been able to restore all the areas that Russia has occupied since the seizure of the Crimea in 2014 and the launch of a widespread invasion in 2022.

Just three weeks ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that his country and the United States have a “mutual understanding” and that the Trump administration “listens to us.” Trump and Putin held a summit in Alaska in early August, but they left without an agreement to end the war.

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Lavrov, and he seemed noticeably an open note from a country that was often west, and Lavrov referred to the summit and said that Russia has “some hopes” to continue speaking with the United States.

“In the approval of the current American administration, we see a desire not only to contribute to ways to solve the Ukrainian crisis in a realistic way, but also the desire to develop practical cooperation without adopting an ideological position,” a new war. “

Certainly, Lavrov still has sharp words for NATO, a coalition that includes the United States and the West in general and the European Union.

Trump’s emerging view of Ukraine is part of the equation

Trump’s new view came about Ukraine’s horizons after he met its president, Voludmir Zelensky, on the sidelines of the General Assembly on Tuesday – seven months after a televised bombing between the two in the Oval Office. This time, the doors were closed, and it was clear that the period is different – a “good meeting”, as Zelinski described it in the assembly speech the next day.

For the fourth consecutive year, Zelinski appealed to the gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other senior officials to remove Russia from his country – and warned that failure to work would put in danger.

“Ukraine is only the first,” he said.

Russia has provided various explanations for the Ukraine war, including ensuring its security in Russia after NATO expanded in the east over the years and approached Ukraine after Russia moved to the Crimea. Russia also said that its attack was aimed at protecting the Russian speakers in eastern Ukraine.

Ukraine and the West denounced Russia’s ingenuity as an unjustified aggressive act.

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In his speech to the devastating war in Gaza, Lavrov condemned the sudden attack of Hamas fighters in southern Israel on October 7, 2023, but he said, “There is no justification” to kill Israel for Palestinian civilians, including children.

The Hamas attack was killed about 1,200 people in Israel. 251 hostages were taken. Israel’s sweeping attack killed more than 65,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. It does not give the collapse of civil deaths and fighters, but he says that about half of the dead were women and children.

Lavrov also said that there is no basis for any potential Israeli annexation of the West Bank, which the Palestinians consider a major part of their future condition, along with Gaza and East Jerusalem.

Israel has not announced this step, but many prominent members of the Netanyahu government have called for this. Officials recently agreed to a controversial settlement project that would effectively cut the West Bank, a step that critics say can calm the opportunities of a Palestinian state.

Between the Gaza war and the situation in the West Bank, “We are mainly dealing with an attempt by a kind of coup that aims to bury the United Nations resolutions over the establishment of a Palestinian state,” Lavrov said.

The international community has long adopted a “state solution” of the Israeli -Palestinian conflict. But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects the idea of ​​the Palestinian state, saying that it will reward Hamas – a position he repeated on Friday at the General Assembly.

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