Internationalism No. 77, July 2025 Page 5 Three years of war in Ukraine have had deleterious effects on relations between Russia and Europe. The dramatic acceleration of European rearmament , as we defined it in Internationalism , April 2025, has raised the tension. The plans of the coalition of the willing in support of Kyiv in their military endeavours have also aroused Moscow’s reactions. In an interview published on March 21 st on the ministry’s website, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergei Lavrov recalled that in the past there was a unique Russia-EU format in the relations between Russia and the European Union, when summits were held twice a year, something the EU never had with any other country . This was evidence of a closeness and mutual interest between Russia and Europe. But, Lavrov complains, they are now telling us we have turned our backs on the West . Obviously, he glosses over t...