The US defense secretary earlier said
Washington plans to expand cooperation with Ukraine in the military sphere.
MOSCOW, September 26./TASS/. The US decision to supply weapons to Ukraine will only add fuel to the fire, and Washington is well aware of this, the director of the Russian Foreign Ministry’s department for issues of non-proliferation and arms control, Mikhail Ulyanov, told a news conference on Tuesday.
"This
decision will be equal to an attempt to add fuel to the fire," the
diplomat said. "I think that even in the US administration many people
understand this. That is why such supplies have not been made as of yet,"
he added.
"If the US changes policy on this trajectory, this can be fraught with a serious escalation for no reason at all. Nothing that goes on in Ukraine necessitates at least the slightest need for such dangerous moves," he stressed.
At the end
of August, U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis said at a news conference he
addressed together with Ukrainian President Pyotr Poroshenko that the U.S.
would expand cooperation with Ukraine in the military sphere and therefore it
would consider possible supplies of lethal weapons.
He said he
would inform the Ukrainian leadership on the details of recommendations to the
U.S. Administration.
Russian
President Vladimir Putin said earlier the possible supplies of lethal weapons
would not change the situation in eastern Ukraine, which is plagued by an armed
civil conflict, but would propel the number of victims there.
Source: ITAR-TASS 26-09-2017
