Ukraine Recap: Russia Says ‘Let’s Decide It on the Battlefield’ || U.S. is ‘Directly at War’ with Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov Says

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• Ukraine Recap: Russia Says ‘Let’s Decide It on the Battlefield’
  by Bloomberg News, via www.msn.com
  (Bloomberg) — Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called Ukrainian proposals for restoring its pre-invasion territory “unrealizable” and said that if Ukraine’s allies want war, they can have it. Lavrov’s comment jibes with a view taking hold among Ukraine’s allies that the war is likely to go on for years.
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  “If you insist on the battlefield, OK, let’s decide it on the battlefield,” Lavrov said at a news conference at the United Nations, days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy denounced Russia’s “criminal” war in a speech to the General Assembly. Lavrov renewed long-standing Russian claims that the West was to blame for the war, which erupted into a full-scale conflict with Russia’s invasion last year. He also said a UN proposal to revive a deal to allow safe passage for Ukrainian grain exports wouldn’t work.
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