MOSCOW, December 18. /TASS/. Russia does not intend to attack NATO countries, it is the West itself that makes Moscow an adversary, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

"The [Russian] president spoke about this, including in a recent interview for the program 'Moscow. Kremlin. Putin', when he commented on [US President Joe] Biden's statement that Putin is supposedly going to conquer Ukraine now, then he will go to the Baltics, Finland, other states," Lavrov said in an interview with the Great Game program on Channel One. "He [Russian President Vladimir Putin] said that this is nonsense, and everyone, including [US President Joe] Biden, knows very well that Russia has no such plans, that we have no territorial disputes with NATO countries. We have no territorial disputes with anyone else, including Japan," Lavrov said. "All territorial disputes have been settled, they understand this very well," the top Russian diplomat pointed out.

"Returning to the topic of Ukraine, he [Russian President Vladimir Putin] said that we have no such intentions. They are the ones who broke off relations with us, they made us either an adversary or now an enemy," Lavrov said in an interview with the Great Game program on Channel One. "We have never tried to break these relations," the top diplomat emphasized.

"It was not on our initiative that this was destroyed," the Russian foreign minister said.