United Nations, Sept. 26 -- Russia's foreign minister chose the most crowded diplomatic week of the year to level his sharpest charge yet, telling counterparts in New York that the West has crossed from proxy backing into open confrontation. In his remarks alongside the United Nations General Assembly, Sergei Lavrov said NATO and the European Union had "already declared a real war" on Russia by arming and coordinating with Kyiv, a line Moscow will now carry into every chamber where the war is debated. The assertion, first reported from the UN venue by Reuters, anchors the Kremlin's claim that the battlefield is no longer Russia versus Ukraine but Russia versus the West, with Ukraine as the conduit. Lavrov's charge framed the day's exchang...