Moscow-Sana
The Russian Federation deplored the silence of Germany and France, the two sides of the Normandy Quartet, on the public threats made by the Ukrainian authorities against Moscow, warning of the impact of these threats on the negotiation process on the Ukraine crisis within the framework of the Minsk Agreement.
In a statement today, quoted by the Russian news agency TASS, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called on Paris and Berlin to express their positions on these public Ukrainian threats to Russia and to clarify their impact on the negotiations to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, and said that "the behavior of our partners in the Normandy Quartet raises questions."
"We urge the German and French authorities to hold new meetings in the format of the "Normandy Quartet" to assess the impact of the direct threats of Ukrainian politicians to Russia on the chances of progress in the negotiations, and we also call on the citizens of Ukraine to consider the consequences of the aggressive statements of politicians in Kiev," Zakharova said.
Zakharova noted that Ukrainian threats to launch a missile strike on Russia and launch large-scale combat operations can only raise Moscow's concern.
Oleksiy Aristovich, adviser to the head of the Ukrainian president's office and spokesman for the Kiev delegation to the tripartite contact group on Donbass, had earlier threatened that his country would use its missile program to pressure the Kremlin in the framework of what he called a "proportional response" to Russia.
