U.S. soldier during NATO exercise in UkraineMOSCOW, Jan 14Hundreds of troops stationed in Ukraine the United States and Britain, 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, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. says, but there are several hundred Americans, British and others,» Lavrov said at a press conference. into the alliance in the foreseeable future»We are well aware that everything the West is doing 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 unacceptable to us, for obvious reasons. reasons,» the minister stressed. 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 requirements of the Minsk agreements. Alexei Polishchuk, director of the Second Department of the CIS countries 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 Donbass.
The United States spoke about leverage against Russia in the event of an escalation in Ukraine
