MOSCOW: Russia would regard the deployment of any foreign military forces or infrastructure in Ukraine as foreign intervention and treat those forces as legitimate \u200btargets, the Foreign Ministry said on Monday, citing Minister Sergei Lavrov.<\/p>\n
The ministry\u2019s comment, one of many it said were in response to questions put to Lavrov, also praised US President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts at working for a resolution of the war and said he understood the fundamental reasons behind the conflict.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe deployment of \u200cmilitary units, facilities, \u200cwarehouses, and other infrastructure of \u200cWestern \u2060countries \u200bin Ukraine \u200cis unacceptable to us and will be regarded as foreign intervention posing a direct threat to Russia\u2019s security,\u201d the ministry said on its website.<\/p>\n
It said Western countries \u2014 which have discussed a possible deployment to Ukraine to help secure any peace deal \u2014 had to understand \u201cthat all foreign military contingents, including German \u2060ones, if deployed in Ukraine, will become legitimate targets for the Russian \u200cArmed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n
The United States has spearheaded \u200defforts to hold talks aimed \u200dat ending the conflict in Ukraine and a second three-sided \u200dmeeting with Russian and Ukrainian representatives is to take place this week in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
The issue of ceding internationally recognized Ukrainian territory to Russia remains a major stumbling block. \u200bKyiv rejects Russian calls for it to give up all of its Donbas region, including territory Moscow\u2019s \u2060forces have not captured.<\/p>\n
Moscow has repeatedly said it will not tolerate the presence in Ukraine of troops from Western countries.<\/p>\n
The ministry said Moscow valued the \u201cpurposeful efforts\u201d of the Trump administration in working toward a resolution and understanding Russia\u2019s long-running concerns about NATO\u2019s eastward expansion and its overtures to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
It described Trump as \u201cone of the few Western politicians who not only immediately refused to advance meaningless and destructive preconditions for starting a substantive dialogue with Moscow on the \u200cUkrainian crisis, but also publicly spoke about its root causes.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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