Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov stressed that his country will have to respond to the United States’ move to place its missiles across Europe.

According to the Russian official, Moscow regrets that European countries have not supported the maintaining of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF Treaty) and will take actions in response to Washington’s decision to deploy its missiles in Europe—and which is prohibited by this treaty, Interfax reported.

“Unfortunately, our European colleagues, whose independence we wish to be reflected in their actions, are not very ready for it and follow the US even when it goes directly against their interests,” highlighted Lavrov, adding that an example of that would be “voting against the Russian resolution in support of maintaining the INF Treaty.”

Therefore, the minister explained, the next logical step for Russia was a “tit-for-tat response.”

“It is not our choice, but the EU capitals have to understand the threat to the security of the Europeans themselves,” concluded Sergey Lavrov.