Row 938

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This was an interim meeting. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said that he was satisfied with the exchange of views, which would help them next week (it was emphasised several times) to present a written response to us. Question: Yesterday the US Department of State released information to the effect that Ukraine poses no threats to Russia. It says RT is responsible for the propaganda of neo-Nazi and right-wing groups in Ukraine. Human Rights Watch also wrote about that. What is the Russian Foreign Ministry’s response to the US State Department’s statement? In what way did increased weapons supplies to Ukraine from the US and the UK impact the talks? Sergey Lavrov: You have already said everything for me. The papers the State Department prepared specially for today’s meeting are unreadable. We have a special unit headed by the Ministry’s official which is supposed to study all that. The response has already been made. I don’t think any more comments are needed. It will suffice to look it through, open to any page and realise that nothing written withstands critical scrutiny. In most cases they are pure lies. Regarding threats. We discussed Ukraine. Our US colleagues once again wanted to give top priority to the issues on the Russia-Ukraine border. They tried to make everything depend on the need for “de-escalation.” This has already become a mantra. We finished by agreeing that next week we will be given written answers to all our proposals. You mentioned the statement that Ukraine poses no threat to Russia. I will remind those who analyse our public statements and positions: Russia has never, nowhere, not once threatened the Ukrainian people through its official representatives. Meanwhile President Zelensky who has been taken under wing by our Western colleagues who encourage all his shenanigans, said publicly that if some Ukrainian citizens feel they are Russian, they should go back to Russia. He called those in Donbass, who are standing up to the state terrorism of the Kiev regime, species, not people. This shows who is threatening whom, and it is hard to say what these threats might lead to. We do not exclude that all that hysteria whipped up by our Western colleagues is intended to at least distract from the Kiev regime’s determination to totally sabotage the Minsk agreements, if not to provoke Ukraine to undertake some military actions in Donbass. I cannot think of any other explanation. We have answered all the questions asked. Our Western colleagues admit that this is Russian territory, however, “we have assembled too many troops.” Whereas in the same breath they say that whatever the Americans do with their troops in Europe is none of our business. Antony Blinken and I spoke frankly about this. He agreed that the dialogue should be more substantive. I hope cooler heads will prevail, although there are no guarantees.

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