“The minister emphasized that the propaganda campaign launched by the United States and its allies about “Russian aggression” against Ukraine pursues provocative goals, encouraging the authorities in Kiev to sabotage the Minsk agreements and harmful attempts to resolve the “Donbass problem” by force,” the ministry said.
Lavrov noted in a conversation that the reaction of Washington and Brussels to the draft Russian-American treaty and agreement with NATO on security guarantees submitted by Moscow ignores the key provisions for Russia.
First of all, this concerns the non-expansion of the alliance and the non-deployment of strike weapons systems near Russian borders, the Foreign Ministry recalled.