{"id":330814,"date":"2026-09-07T06:42:41","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T06:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330814"},"modified":"2026-09-09T07:23:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T07:23:40","slug":"lavrov-we-are-at-start-of-real-war-with-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330814","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov: We are at &#8216;start of real war&#8217; with West"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sophia Yan \u2013 The Telegraph Sept 6, 2026<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_134831\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134831\" class=\"wp-image-134831 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Lavrov-at-St-Petersburg-forum-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Russia\u2019s foreign minister has warned his country is at \u201cthe beginning of a real war\u201d with the West after Berlin accused it of attacking<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/08\/05\/explosive-drone-found-ukraine-plane-russia-germany\/\">\u00a0Leipzig airport<\/a>\u00a0with an explosive drone.<\/p>\n<p>Sergei Lavrov cited a string of German actions as evidence of escalating tensions, claiming that some of them echoed events leading up to the Second World War.<\/p>\n<p>Germany has expelled the Russian consulate general from Bonn, as well as closing the Russian House, a cultural centre in Berlin, in response to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2026\/09\/03\/britain-summons-russian-diplomat-leipzig-drone-germaby\/\">the failed drone attack<\/a>\u00a0in Leipzig.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"swCJP9Lxwt\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330779\">Germany\u2019s airport terror plot: a flight of fancy leading Europe to war<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cGermany\u2019s airport terror plot: a flight of fancy leading Europe to war\u201d \u2014 The Truthseeker\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=330779&amp;embed=true#?secret=jrd0WMV4tQ#?secret=swCJP9Lxwt\" data-secret=\"swCJP9Lxwt\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The attack, discovered in early August, amounts to one of the most brazen acts of sabotage that Russia has attempted in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lavrov, speaking as Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, the US envoys, visited Moscow and Kyiv in an attempt to revive Ukraine peace talks, accused Germany of wanting war.<\/p>\n<p>He told a Russian state TV reporter: \u201cThis is, by and large, the start of a real war. They expelled the consulate general from Bonn. They\u2019re closing the Russian House (cultural centre) in Berlin. I remember that before the start of the Second World War&#8230; They want war again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Lavrov\u2019s comments came as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/09\/06\/friedrich-merz-germany-immigration-afd\/\">AfD, the Kremlin-friendly<\/a>\u00a0German populist party, was predicted to win a landslide in a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/world-news\/2026\/09\/04\/power-grid-sabotage-overshadows-german-elections\/\">crucial regional election<\/a>. That could pave the way for victory at the next federal election, and trigger a crisis of confidence in Friedrich Merz\u2019s government.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Witkoff and Mr Kushner arrived in Kyiv on Sunday for their first official visit to the Ukrainian capital, following talks in Moscow with Vladimir Putin on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/other\/lavrov-we-are-at-start-of-real-war-with-west\/ar-AA2bFXgy\">Continues \u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Larov warns that Russia may be on the threshold of &#8220;real war&#8221; with the West<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330839,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330814\/revisions\/330839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}