MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia on Thursday said that there was no Cold War with the West because it was now a “fiery” conflict, and that the European Union and the NATO military alliance were lying about alleged Moscow’s sabotage operations to justify vast military spending.

The war in Ukraine, Europe’s deadliest since World War Two, has sparked the biggest confrontation between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis.

“I would disagree with the comparison with the Cold War,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters when asked if there was now a new Cold War with an “Iron Curtain”-like drone wall being built in Europe.

“We are already in another form of conflict. There has been no cold here for a long time; there is already fire here.”

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