{"id":5904,"date":"2026-02-02T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/lavrov-europe-trying-to-drive-wedge-between-russia-and-us\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T12:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T12:00:21","slug":"lavrov-europe-trying-to-drive-wedge-between-russia-and-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/02\/02\/lavrov-europe-trying-to-drive-wedge-between-russia-and-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Lavrov Accuses Europe of Trying to Drive a Wedge Between Russia and the US"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sergey Lavrov, Russia&#8217;s Foreign Minister, stated that the European Union has been persistently attempting to create division and discord between Russia and the United States.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lavrov, this European approach stems from Brussels&#8217; interpretation of US policies; interpretations that European officials believe, during Donald Trump&#8217;s presidency, leaned towards advancing Russian interests.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian Foreign Minister emphasized that Moscow is closely monitoring these efforts and remains vigilant against what he described as provocations by Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>Without referencing any specific action, he added that Russia has sufficient experience with such approaches and will not allow these policies to have a decisive impact on its relations with Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov accuses the EU of trying to drive a wedge between Russia and the US, monitoring Brussels&#8217; actions closely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}