Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Thursday, per a Public Telegram Board, that NATO and the European Union are waging war against Russia “using Ukraine as a proxy” and are “directly participating” in the conflict.

Sergey Lavrov said in his address, “NATO and the EU have basically declared war on my country and are partaking of it directly.”

Ukraine's leader to push for "robust action" against Russia at U.N. gathering, as America's NATO partners accuse Putin of dangerous incursions, and lies.

Two NATO officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive operational matters, told NBC News U.S. fighter jets were taking off for assignments somewhere in Eastern Europe.

Russia's foreign minister accused NATO and the European Union of using Ukraine to wage war against his country in a speech on the sidelines of the United Nations on Thursday that Britain dismissed as "false fantasy world distortions.

The US and Canada scrambled fighter jets to identify and intercept four Russian military planes off Alaska, amid growing concern over Moscow’s incursions into Nato airspace. The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) said it had detected and tracked two Russian Tu-95s and two Su-35s operating in the Alaskan Air Defence Identification Zone.

U.S. President Donald Trump, who arrived in New York on the 23rd to attend the UN General Assembly, wrote on his social media platform Truth Social: “With NATO and European support, Ukraine could not only reclaim its original territories lost to Russia but might even achieve more.

Ukraine should be fully integrated into plans for a "drone wall" to protect NATO's borders because it has the experience and know-how to be able to do it, Lithuania's foreign minister said on Monday.