"The series of joint drills held recently by the United States and its NATO allies in Europe, that included scenarios of the use of nuclear weapons against Russia, was unprecedented," Lavrov emphasized, TASS reported.
He accused "irresponsible politicians" of being obsessed with their own impunity amid what he said was a total lack of the basic sense of self-preservation as they declared the task of inflicting a strategic defeat on Russia.
Russia’s top diplomat recalled that Western leaders’ assurances that NATO would not expand eastward proved to be a deceit.