Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of wanting to provoke a conflict in Ukraine over allegations of possible impending Russian intervention during a telephone conversation today with his American counterpart, Anthony Blinken, according to a press release from his ministry.
Sergei Lavrov “stressed that the propaganda campaign launched by the United States and its allies over a ‘Russian attack’ on Ukraine is aimed at provoking, encouraging the Kiev authorities’ to resort to a ‘military solution to the Donbas problem.’ The region of eastern Ukraine, on the border with Russia, where Ukrainian forces have been fighting pro-Russian separatists for eight years, is backed by Moscow, the statement said.
At the same time, US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken assured that the diplomatic route remains “open” to avoid a conflict in Ukraine, but that a “de-escalation” on the part of Moscow would be necessary, during today’s telephone conversation with him. His Russian counterpart, according to the State Department.
An invasion of Ukraine, which Russia is accused of preparing, “would lead to a decisive, massive and united transatlantic response,” said State Department spokesman Ned Price.
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