The West pushes Kyiv authorities toward military conflict, Lukashevich says

Moscow, SANA- The West doesn’t want diplomatic settlement of the conflict in Ukraine pushing Kyiv authorities towards military conflict, Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich said on Monday.

The foreign patrons of the current Ukrainian authorities are persistently dissuading them from political and diplomatic ways, Russian Foreign Ministry quoted Lukashevich as saying at a special meeting of the OSCE Permanent Council.

After such encouraging signals from Western capitals, Ukraine’s leadership “has changed its rhetoric to stake on militarism again, he noted.

Shaza Qreima