Ukrainian military equipment in Lugansk regionMOSCOW, Jan 18 Russia will welcome US assistance in Ukrainian settlement, since Washington has a decisive influence on the authorities in Kiev, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. decisive influence on the Kiev regime,» he said during a press conference after negotiations with the German Foreign Minister. Earlier, Oleg Krasnitsky, Acting Director of the Third European Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry, told RIA Novosti that Russia's negotiating channels with the American side on the Ukrainian settlement are now being resumed, There are no contraindications to the US joining the Normandy format. The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that Germany and France will not object to the expansion of the «Normandy format» at the expense of the United States. United States leads the Normandy Format
