>Yury Filatov said: "There is no way around the fact that by engaging with the Ukrainian military, be it on mines or otherwise, Ireland would clearly be involved in the ongoing conflict in a direct way."

It sounds to me like Russia is desperate to say that other nations are actively helping Ukraine fight the war (beyond supplying arms and training). I think they recognize that they're losing and would rather say "it's because we were fighting all of NATO and Ukraine" rather than "we couldn't beat that tiny country on our border."

Of course, the scary part is whether they'll believe their own propaganda and decide to "counterattack" to retaliate for "NATO forces helping Ukraine."