INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday that the support of the United States, Britain and France for Ukraine was stoking
serious strategic risks that had raised the risk of a direct confrontation between the world&s biggest nuclear powers.Lavrov said the United
States and NATO were obsessed with the idea of inflicting &strategic defeat& on Russia and there were risks in such confrontation that could
lead to an increased level of nuclear danger, Reuters reported.&The Westerners are teetering dangerously on the brink of a direct military
clash between nuclear powers, which is fraught with catastrophic consequences,& Lavrov said.The United States and its allies say they are
helping Ukraine to defend itself against Russian aggression and that it is Russia that is aggravating East-West tensions, including by
issuing repeated warnings about the danger of a nuclear conflict.Lavrov said: &Of particular concern is the fact that it is the ‘troika&
of Western nuclear states that are among the key sponsors of the criminal Kyiv regime, the main initiators of various provocative steps
We see serious strategic risks in this, leading to an increase in the level of nuclear danger.&The three Western countries with nuclear
weapons are the United States, Britain and France.The post Russia says West is teetering on brink of conflict between nuclear powers first
