# EU firmly on path of confrontation with Russia, worsening its problems, diplomat says

https://mins.news/en/item/91278

- TASS, 2026-10-08 11:36 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2199267

> Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said the EU’s confrontational course toward Russia would aggravate Europe’s existing problems. She accused EU leaders of ignoring this and called EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas’s accusations of Russian hybrid attacks unsubstantiated, saying they divert public attention from mounting problems at home toward an imaginary “Russian threat.”

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