“The regime is trying to drag the Americans and other NATO members even deeper into the whirlpool of conflict in the hope of making their head-on collision with the Russian army inevitable,” Lavrov said.
He recalled the "provocation" with the fall of a Ukrainian air defense missile in Poland, which Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky "deceitfully tried to pass off as Russian."
Former CIA officer Philip Giraldi previously expressed the opinion that Zelensky's behavior after the incident with the missile fall in Poland suggests that he intends to drag the US and NATO into an armed conflict.
Columnist Andrew Koribko accused Zelensky of trying to trick World War III.
The Ukrainian leader said he was not 100% sure that the rocket that fell in Poland was Russian.
On November 16, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported that Russian troops carried out precision-guided missile strikes on November 15 only against targets in Ukraine and no closer than 35 kilometers from the Ukrainian-Polish border.