Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov threatened on Wednesday that sending a peacekeeping force to Ukraine could mean a “direct conflict” between Russian and NATO forces, criticizing the Polish proposal.
Last week, Warsaw announced that it would formally submit a proposal for the development of an international peacekeeping mission in Ukraine at the NATO Summit.
“This will be a direct confrontation between the Russian and NATO armed forces that everyone not only tried to avoid, but said should not happen from the beginning,” Lavrov said in a televised speech to students at the State Institute of International Relations. Moscow. “I hope they understand what they are saying,” he commented.
Lavrov also said that the Moscow-Kiev talks were “difficult” because Ukraine was “constantly changing its position.”
He added that Russia has “the spirit and the will to defend itself Russian culture in Ukraine “.
Poland’s spy agency ABW said today it had located 45 Russian diplomats suspected of being spies, adding that it had asked the Foreign Ministry to deport them.
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