Russia's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said the initiative of some Ukrainian parliamentarians to sever diplomatic relations between Ukraine and Russia is "an inadequate idea," according to an UNIAN correspondent in Russia.
Moscow believes that Kyiv’s plea to the UN to deploy a peacekeeping mission along the Russian-Ukrainian border in Donbas violates the succession of the Minsk agreements' stages, Russian Foreign Ministry spox Maria Zakharova said on Thursday, according to TASS news agency.
Following confirmed reports on the approval of U.S. lethal aid to Ukraine, the Russian Federation has once again changed its stance on the issue of introducing a UN mission into Donbas, steering back to Russian President Vladimir Putin’s initial argument that peacekeepers should only be deployed along the line of contact.
Washington has refused to hand out visas to a group of Russian diplomats, who are supposed to replace their colleagues who had been deported from the United States by the Obama administration in December 2016, that’s according to Russian Foreign Ministry spox Maria Zakharova, RIA Novosti reported.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova says that the Dutch people who said "no" to the association with Ukraine have been "taken for a ride."
The Russian Foreign Ministry believes that the situation in Montenegro is now unfavorable for the Russians, as stated by ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova, RIA Novosti reports.
Russian Foreign Ministry’s spokesperson Maria Zakharova has told a briefing in Moscow that at the meeting of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), the Russian side intends to discuss NATO military presence along Russian borders, an UNIAN correspondent in Russia reports.