Russia (bbabo.net) - The Russian side warns "hot heads" in Ukraine against military confrontation. This was stated by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in an interview with RT TV channel.

As the head of the Foreign Ministry pointed out, there are such people both in Ukraine and in the West, where a number of politicians, with their statements and actions, feed aggressive sentiments in Ukraine. "The calculation is very simple - the more irritation there is on our borders, the more they will have hopes to bring Russia out of balance, so that Russia does not interfere with their development of the corresponding territories," Lavrov explained this policy.

According to him, Russia will give an answer to any provocations. As the minister recalled, the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spoke about this at the collegium of the Ministry of Defense. "We have all the necessary capabilities to provide a proper, including a military-technical response to any provocations that may unfold around us," Lavrov said.

At the same time, the Foreign Minister drew attention to the fact that the American side at different levels, starting with the Geneva summit of the Russian Federation and the United States, expressed an interest in facilitating the implementation of the Minsk agreements without prejudice to the Normandy format. "If the United States still has an understanding of the need to put an end to outright sabotage, outright disgrace on the part of the Kiev authorities, then we will only be glad," Lavrov said.

But the position of Berlin and Paris on the Ukrainian issue worries Moscow. “We are very worried that Kiev distorts the Minsk agreements and turns them upside down ... that the French and Germans, as co-authors of this document, are beginning to simply stand 100 percent on the side of the Ukrainian regime,” the minister said. "Either our colleagues signed that they are not able to ensure the fulfillment of what they themselves composed with us, or that they have taken a course towards deliberately undermining these Minsk agreements to please the Kiev regime," Lavrov added.

Against this background, the decision to publish diplomatic correspondence with French Foreign Ministers and F. Jean-Yves Le Drian and Heiko Maas about the possibility of a ministerial meeting in the Normandy format looks correct. “It seems to me that the talks in question are very indicative and that completely refute the assertions that sounded before we showed our cards. ..

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