Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 14There are hundreds of US and British military personnel in Ukraine, and the supply of weapons by the West to the Ukrainian side creates an additional temptation for Kiev to switch to forceful methods of resolving the conflict in the Donbass, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. -sometimes he says by mistake, but there are several hundred Americans, British and others,» Lavrov said at a press conference.Lavrov urged the West to pay attention to Zelensky's threats against the Russians «We are well aware that everything that the West does in terms of pumping up this government (Ukraine) with weapons creates an additional temptation for it to switch to forceful methods of resolving issues in eastern Ukraine. This is absolutely for us unacceptable for obvious reasons,» the minister stressed. The participation of Western instructors in the conflict in Donbass will cross red lines and mean a direct clash between the Russian people and the NATO military, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. «When we draw attention to this, the West always says that these are instructors, they do not participate in hostilities.I clearly remember a television picture during the war in Georgia in August 2008, when instructors in the form of American army officers — both white and African Americans — instructed practically how to load anti-tank and other I do not want this to happen again in Ukraine, because it will be the transition of all possible lines. This will be a direct clash between Russian citizens of Ukraine and the NATO military,» he said at a press conference at the end of the year. Earlier, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that foreign military personnel in Donbass are engaged in incitement, and Kiev is trying to legalize their presence in order to circumvent the demands Alexey Polishchuk, Director of the Second CIS Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, said in an interview with RIA Novosti that instructors from Western countries are training the military of Ukraine, which directly violates the Minsk agreements and negatively affects the settlement in Donbas. DPR and LPR, which declared independence after the coup d'état in Kiev in February 2014. According to the latest UN data, about 13 thousand people became victims of the conflict. ceasefires continue lky, in the DPR they announced shelling of residential areas by Ukrainian heavy artillery. Moscow has repeatedly stated that Kiev is not complying with the Minsk agreements and is dragging out negotiations to resolve the conflict. Lavrov
