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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has delivered a blistering assessment of the European Union's military ambitions, claiming that if Ukraine is allowed to join the bloc, the EU "will simply fall apart." Following a high-level diplomatic meeting with Turkish officials, Lavrov detailed grave security threats in the Black Sea, accusing Kyiv of staging provocations against Turkish grain ships and threatening the vital TurkStream pipeline. With the Trump administration's cooling attitude toward European security now evident, Lavrov exposed a secret British plot to form an independent, hardline anti-Russia military alliance involving London, Ukraine, and Eastern European states, warning that Western elites are actively turning the EU into a militarized zone targeted directly at the Russian Federation.