MOSCOW, August 23. /TASS/. Countries of the North Atlantic Treaty Alliance and the European Union will not be able to talk their way out publicly in advance from providing military assistance to Ukraine and pursuing a Russophobic line, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Sunday.

He pointed out that Russia will be taking into account everything that "openly Russophobic elites are doing now in Britain, in Brussels, in Paris, in Berlin, in other NATO and EU countries, in the vast majority of these countries."

"That's why they are well aware of what they're doing, and they're trying to talk their way out of it publicly in advance. It won't work," the Russian foreign minister told Vesti journalist Pavel Zarubin.