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Lavrov Vows Russia Will Not Wage War Against Ukraine

by mosesman

  • Lavrov Vows Russia Will Not Wage War Against Ukraine
    by http://tass.com/ , 17 Dec 2018
    Lavrov warns that the Kiev regime is hatching a scheme for an armed provocation on the border with Crimea some time in the last ten days of December.
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    MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. Russia is not going to wage war against Ukraine but will respond in kind, if Kiev carries out a provocation on the border with Crimea, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio station on Monday. “We will not wage war against Ukraine, I promise you,” he vowed.
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    Donbass republics
    He stressed that Ukraine’s domestic problems were “much broader and deeper” than just the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk people’s republics (DPR, LPR). That’s why Russia cannot just recognize the DPR and LPR, as that would be tantamount to leaving the rest of Ukraine in the hands of the Nazi regime.
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    “You want to recognize the LPR and DPR? And what’s next? To lose the rest of Ukraine and abandon it to the Nazis?” he said, when asked why Russia refused to recognize these self-proclaimed republics.
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    Provocation near Crimea
    He noted though that Kiev was plotting more incitement on the border with Russia. “I am sure there will be more provocations,” he warned. “”[Ukrainian President Pyotr] Poroshenko is planning an armed provocation on the border with Russia, on the border with Crimea during the last ten days of December.”
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    The minister vowed that Russia would not leave that unanswered. “The answer is: they will regret it. This is our country, this is our border. We will not allow him [Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko] to try to somehow protect his interests, the way he sees it, and violate those rights that Crimeans defended in full accordance with international law,” Lavrov stressed.
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    Russia’s top diplomat pointed out that the current regime in Kiev was similar to that of neo-Nazis. “We are not fighting the Ukrainian regime. It is Ukrainian citizens living in Donbass who are fighting against the Ukrainian regime, which has full Nazi and neo-Nazi characteristics,” Lavrov pointed out.According to Russia’s data, Poroshenko has been discussing the upcoming provocation on the border with Crimea with his Western sponsors. “They advise him to keep low intense combat actions to enable them to go ahead with propaganda that Russians are carrying out an offensive against Ukraine and that’s why Russia needs to be hit by sanctions, but military actions should never switch into a phase that will be followed by full-scale responses,” Lavrov stressed.
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    Russia’s top diplomat emphasized that Kiev’s provocations are ongoing. “Our respective services are making all necessary efforts to thwart these incidents.”
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