Lavrov: The West has long been provoking Ukraine to anti-Russian actions

According to him, the most striking example of this is the involvement of the countries of the post-Soviet space in NATO.

“Because the West is well aware of our attitude to these efforts,” he explained during a press conference.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy put in place a new package of sanctions against Russia in early November.

At the end of October, Deputy Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Igor Zhovkva, in the framework of a meeting with the European Union's Special Representative for Human Rights, Imon Gilmore, recommended the EU to strengthen anti-Russian sanctions.