OREANDA-NEWS  Russia has no need to attack anyone. Statements in the European Union and NATO to the contrary are nonsense, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference, RIA Novosti reports.

"Nonsense… We have no desire, no need, neither military, nor political, nor economic, to attack anyone anywhere," he stressed.

Earlier, the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Josep Borrel, criticized the panic over the threat of an allegedly probable Russian attack. He noted that he does not know how European politicians and the military come to estimates about the timing of a possible collision.

Earlier, Lavrov said that Moscow had not spoiled relations with Washington and would not run "to Uncle Sam to ask for forgiveness." When asked by a CBS journalist about how to improve relations between the two countries, Lavrov stressed that Moscow had never spoiled them.

According to him, those who invented the Russian threat, and also decided that Russian President Vladimir Putin was a "good guy" and would be kept "in his pocket", miscalculated.