"If Europe, which talks every day about preparing for war against Russia, were to attack the Russian Federation, it would be a completely different war and would be very short," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stated at the World Youth Festival in Yekaterinburg, APA's Moscow bureau reports.
He threatened Europe with a "very short" war.
Lavrov, who said that Russia has no intention of attacking Europe, expressed hope that European capitals and European Union institutions would heed this "warning."