UNITED NATIONS (AP) \u2014 Russia\u2019s top diplomat insisted to world leaders Saturday that his nation has no intention of attacking Europe, but any aggression against his country \u201cwill be met with a decisive response.\u201d<\/p>\n
Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov<\/a> spoke at the U.N. General Assembly<\/a> at a time when unauthorized flights into NATO\u2019s airspace<\/a> \u2014 intrusions blamed on Russia \u2014 have raised alarm around Europe in recent weeks, particularly after NATO jets downed drones over Poland<\/a> and Estonia said Russian fighter jets flew into its territory and lingered for 12 minutes<\/a>. <\/p>\n Russia has denied that its planes entered Estonian and has said the drones didn\u2019t target Poland, with Moscow\u2019s ally Belarus maintaining that Ukrainian signal-jamming sent the devices off course. But European leaders see the incidents as intentional, provocative moves<\/a> meant to rattle NATO and to suss how the alliance will respond. <\/p>\n Lavrov instead maintained that it\u2019s Russia that\u2019s facing threats. <\/p>\n \u201cRussia has never had and does not have any such intentions\u201d of attacking European or NATO countries, he said. \u201cHowever, any aggression against my country will be met with a decisive response.\u201d<\/p>\n Lavrov spoke three years into an invasion of Ukraine that the international community has broadly deplored<\/a> and a that powerful member newly says Ukraine can repel. <\/p>\n U.S. President Donald Trump said this week that he believed Ukraine can win back all the territory it has lost to Russia. It was a notable tone shift<\/a> from a U.S. leader who had previously suggested Ukraine would need to make some concessions<\/a> and could never reclaim all the areas Russia has occupied since seizing the Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and launching a full-scale invasion in 2022<\/a>. <\/p>\n Just three weeks earlier, Russian President Vladimir Putin said his country and the U.S. had a \u201cmutual understanding\u201d<\/a> and that Trump\u2019s administration \u201cis listening to us.\u201d<\/p>\n Trump\u2019s new view came after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of General Assembly Tuesday \u2014 seven months after a televised blow-up<\/a> between the two in the Oval Office. This time, the doors were closed, and the tenor was evidently different \u2014 \u201ca good meeting,\u201d as Zelenskyy described it in his assembly speech the next day<\/a>.<\/p>\n For the fourth year in a row<\/a>, Zelenskyy appealed to the gathering of presidents, prime ministers and other top officials to get Russia out of his country \u2014 and warned that inaction would put other countries at risk. <\/p>\n \u201cUkraine is only the first,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n