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Russian Foreign Minister

Sergei Lavrov

warned on Wednesday that the deployment of NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine would provoke military clashes between troops from

Russia

and the

Atlantic Alliance

.

"That will entail direct clashes between

Russian

and

NATO

forces , something that we all would not like to avoid, but that we declare should not happen in principle,"

Lavrov

told a university lecture.

Lavrov considers the pacifying proposal of

Poland

, one of the main allies of

Kiev

and the destination of millions of refugees from the neighboring country, a provocation, and which he also accuses of harboring territorial ambitions in

Ukraine

.

In addition to mentioning the alleged

NATO

plans to send

a battalion made up of the three Baltic republics to

Ukraine , he recalled that he was also opposed at the time to the deployment of an international force in

Donbas

.

Lavrov

has also denounced the statements that point to the need to deploy

Stinger

anti-aircraft missiles in

Ukraine

, which, he has warned, would suppose "a colossal threat".

In turn, the head of Russian diplomacy has accused the United States of being interested in prolonging "as much as possible" the current Russian "allied military operation" in

Ukraine

.

"They hope to continue supplying

Ukraine

with weapons . It seems that they want to keep us in a combat state as much as possible," he said.

He has also attacked

Kiev

for continually changing its position in the negotiations, during which, he has suggested, the Ukrainian delegation goes hand in hand with the

United States

.

He frames in this strategy the latest speeches by the President of

Ukraine

,

Volodimir Zelenski

, before the Parliaments of various Western countries.

"The delay (of the negotiations) is aimed at dramatizing the situation, at allowing

Zelensky

in his khaki shirt to intervene before the Parliaments of the world and after the speech, with tears in his eyes, demand

NATO

's interference again ", has commented.

Lavrov

assures that

Moscow

is not opposed to the mediation of Western countries, but stresses that there are "absolute red lines" that cannot be crossed.

As for the attempts to isolate the country from him and the US pressure for all world powers to join Western sanctions, he has replied: "We have many friends."

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