 Lavrov, NATO member's direct engagement in Ukraine crisis, increases nuclear conflict risk. The direct involvement of the NATO member states in the Ukrainian crisis increases the risk of a nuclear conflict. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at an international meeting of high representatives in charge of security issues taking place in the Moscow region. Dejure NATO countries are directly involved in the conflict on the side of Kiev. Such an irresponsible line significantly increases the threat of a direct military clash between nuclear powers. Lavrov said. The Russian Foreign Minister said that Moscow calls on Brussels and Washington to abandon unilateral forced decisions in the interest of reducing international tensions. He said that behind NATO's latest expansion push lie the same underlying intentions as the policies of Hitler in essence. NATO's reckless expansion reflects the same extensions that undergirded the Hitlerian doctrine of Drang nach Ostern. Lavrov said. According to Russia's top diplomat, the United States has purposefully set about destroying the architecture of European security, while focusing in particular on engendering threats that are unacceptable to Russia. The Russian Foreign Minister criticised the NATO country's provocative course toward relentlessly expanding the alliance eastward, which he said has been done in spite of the top level Western pledges made to the then leadership of the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand one inch. He said the West is trying to strengthen its position in the South Caucasus and Central Asia. According to him, Western countries are also trying to change the situation in North Africa and the Middle East. The United States still sees the Latin American and the Caribbean countries as its backyard.