Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov faced Western critics while attending international security talks Thursday in Northern Macedonia, where he blamed “NATO’s reckless expansion to the East” for war returning to Europe.

The OSCE is not the only international body where the West and Russia meet. Lavrov still attends Group of 20 events around the world and the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's annual foreign ministers' meeting on Thursday has split member states, with Baltic nations and Ukraine refusing to attend over the presence of Russia's Sergei Lavrov and urging others to as well.

Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg spoke to his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov on the sidelines of a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Skopje on Thursday,

Josep Borrell, EU High Representative for Foreign and Security Policy, despite the statement that he will go to Skopje, has ignored the ministerial meeting of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),

The foreign ministers of the three Baltic states and of Ukraine say they will boycott a meeting by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe being held this week in North Macedonia