European leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer, are openly "preparing for war against the Russian Federation", Russia's foreign minister has claimed. Sergey Lavrov made the comments at a press conference, state-owned news agency TASS reported. "If you read the statements of European politicians and leaders - Kaja Kallas, Ursula von der Leyen, Merz, Starmer, Macron, Rutte - they are seriously preparing for war against the Russian Federation, and, in fact, they are not hiding it," Lavrov is quoted