Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has criticized the US’ plans to supply \u201clethal weapons\u201d to the Ukrainian government.<\/p>\n
Lavrov made the criticism at a meeting with his American counterpart John Kerry in Munich.<\/p>\n
“Lavrov stressed that the plans currently discussed in Washington to supply military hardware and weapons to Kyiv could have unpredictable consequences and risk undermining the efforts to find a political solution to the conflict in the South-East of the country,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said on its Facebook page.<\/p>\n
Lavrov and Kerry met on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Russia believes arms supplies to Ukraine would only aggravate the raging crisis in the European country.<\/p>\n
Lavrov had earlier said that Washington\u2019s actions over the crisis in Ukraine crisis had aggravated the situation.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe U.S. took steps at each stage of the Ukraine crisis that only led to its further escalation,\u201d Lavrov said at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.<\/p>\n
He also added that the US puts the blame on Russia for \u201cany complicated situation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn any complicated situation, our American colleagues try to shift the blame to Russia – take, for instance, the talk about the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, which has become increasingly more active of late.\u201d<\/p>\n
The New York Times the US President Barack Obama\u2019s administration is considering supplying Ukrainian forces with weapons and equipment to fight pro-Russian militias in country\u2019s restive eastern regions.<\/p>\n
It reported that John Kerry and US joint chiefs chairman Martin Dempsey were open to discuss the idea.<\/p>\n
An increasing numbers of American lawmakers have been asking President Obama to send arms to Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Republican Senator John McCain, leading a dozen Republican and Democratic lawmakers, said few days ago that US lawmakers would introduce a legislation requiring the US to send arms to Ukraine if President Barack Obama does not move to send weapons.<\/p>\n
Republican and Democrat Senators from Illinois Mark Kirk and Richard Durbin have written a letter to President Obama asking him to ask Obama to arm Ukraine \u201cover escalating Russian aggression\u201d there.<\/p>\n
The idea of sending lethal arms to Ukraine has drove a wedge among Washington\u2019s allies with German Chancellor Angela Merkel saying the crisis in Ukraine would not be solved by military means.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe progress that Ukraine needs cannot be achieved by more weapons,\u201d Merkel said in Munich on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe problem is that I cannot envisage any situation in which an improved equipment of the Ukrainian army leads to a situation where President Putin is so impressed that he will lose militarily.\u201d<\/p>\n
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