He said this in an interview with YouTube-channel Stephen Gardner.
As McGovern noted, the White House argues that Russia's actions against Ukraine were not provoked.
"However, to assume that these actions are not provoked is a lie," he stressed.
The guest of the program noted that the "young Foreign Minister" Sergey Lavrov expressed to US Ambassador William Burns Moscow's position on the issue of Ukraine's accession to NATO.
According to his estimates, Washington ignored Moscow's warnings.
Sergey Lavrov noted that Russia categorically does not accept the transformation of neighboring countries into a military bridgehead.
He stressed that the decision of the Bucharest NATO summit in 2008, where it was announced that Georgia and Ukraine would become members of the alliance, became "a mine in the very foundation of the construction of European security."
He recalled that once such a "mine" had already exploded - in 2008, when the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who was "in euphoria", decided on an adventure.