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Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov issues chilling warning about ‘direct clash’ with NATO
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Russian Overseas Minister Sergeĭ Lavrov warned that if NATO sends peacekeepers into Ukraine amid Russia’s invasion, that can result in a direct army conflict between the Russian forces and the alliance.
“Sending NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine would result in a direct conflict between the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and the alliance,” Lavrov mentioned Wednesday morning, in keeping with the Russian state-news company TASS.
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield on Sunday dominated out the opportunity of the U.S. collaborating in peacekeeping operations inside Ukraine, stating that the Biden administration won’t ship U.S. troops to the nation.
On this photograph launched by the Russian Overseas Ministry Press Service, Russian Overseas Minister Sergey Lavrov pauses throughout his and Brazilian Overseas Minister Carlos Franca’s joint information convention following their talks in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 2021.
(Russian Overseas Ministry Press Service through AP)
“The president has been very clear that we are going to not put American troops on the bottom in Ukraine,” Thomas-Greenfield mentioned. “We do not need to escalate this right into a warfare with the US.”
“However we’ll help our NATO allies,” she added. Biden “has made clear that if there’s an assault on any of our NATO allies, below Article 5, that we are going to help these nations and defend these nations.”
United States Ambassador to the United Nations nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield testifies throughout for her affirmation listening to earlier than the Senate Overseas Relations Committee on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (Greg Nash/Pool through AP)
The Polish outlet Onet.Pl reportedly gained entry to a secret mission at Poland’s Ministry of Nationwide Protection, aiming to deploy peacekeepers from quite a few NATO nations to Ukraine. Warsaw is predicted to formally current it on the NATO summit on March 24. The U.S. won’t take part however might conform to a mission involving another nations.
Gutted vehicles following an evening air raid within the village of Bushiv, 40 kilometers west of Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 4, 2022.
(AP Picture/Efrem Lukatsky)
Lavrov’s warning means that Russia would contemplate the presence of NATO peacekeepers a army escalation and a reason behind warfare towards the alliance.
The warfare has dragged on for a couple of month as Russia’s superior troop numbers have run into unexpectedly fierce Ukrainian resistance. The battle for the southern port metropolis of Mariupol has grown more and more fierce, whereas cities like Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, and its second metropolis, Kharkiv, are successfully below siege. Russia has additionally focused cities within the West of the nation, not removed from the border with Poland, the place greater than 2 million of Ukraine’s 3 million refugees have reportedly fled.