Lavrov blames West for new 'Cold War', warns it could turn 'hot' 

TA'QALI, Dec 5: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday blamed the West for triggering a new Cold War, and warned it risked turning into an East-West conflict, the state-run RIA Novosti news agency reported.

In remarks to an OSCE summit in Malta, RIA quoted Lavrov as saying that the West was behind a "reincarnation of the Cold War, only now with a much greater risk of a transition to a hot one". 

Lavrov accused the West of failing to heed the Kremlin's warnings over the dangers of dispatching troops to support Ukraine.    —AFP