The US Will Not Fight for Ukraine in the Donbas

MOSCOW – Minister of Foreign Affairs Russia, Sergei Lavrov said, United States (US) will not fight for Ukraine in Donbas. Those who think otherwise, Lavrov said, are worthless.

“There is no point in relying on US military assistance. This is always known to everyone. If there is any illusion that such assistance will come, such advisers are useless in any government, including the government of (President of Ukraine, Volodymyr) Zelensky,” Lavrov said.

He said the main responsibility for Ukraine’s settlement currently rests with the West, as it has “real influence” on the Ukrainian leadership and can make it take the necessary steps to implement the Minsk Agreement. Also read: Boy Fell from Third Floor While Riding the Escalator at a Shopping Center

“The main responsibility lies with the West, because only the West can make Zelensky do what his predecessors signed,” he said, as reported by Anadolu Agency on Thursday (6/5/2021).

“And, what Zelensky signed too, when in December 2019 in Paris he confirmed together with the Presidents of Russia, France and the Chancellor of Germany that there is no alternative to the Minsk Agreement,” he continued.

Lavrov said the leaders of Germany, France, Russia and Ukraine had worked on the Minsk Agreement for more than 17 consecutive hours, and that all the steps and sequences were thoroughly verified and that any attempt to change the order or the steps themselves would lead nowhere.

The senior Russian diplomat went on to say Moscow is preparing a list of hostile countries and will publish it soon. Also read: Moscow Sanctions EU Officials, France Summons Russian Ambassador

He promised that including a country on the list would become clear and that the list would be revised depending on how relations with the country concerned develop in the future.

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