Diplomat Gavrilov said that the EU and the US encourage the continuation of hostilities in Ukraine

Gavrilov also called the situation on the European conventional track tense.

Earlier, Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the North Atlantic Alliance de facto got into the conflict in Ukraine, but this does not affect Russia's goals.

During a meeting in Sevastopol, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Nikolai Patrushev said that, in fact, "the NATO bloc is fighting against Russia."

He also said that attempts at negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv were thwarted by order of the United States.