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NATO, EU Delivery of Military Aid to Kiev Would Contradict All Agreements Reached - Lavrov

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The delivery of military aid to Kiev by NATO or the European Union would contradict all of the agreements reached earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

BERLIN, August 18 (RIA Novosti) – The delivery of military aid to Kiev by NATO or the European Union would contradict all of the agreements reached earlier, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday.

“I don’t like this at all, this contradicts all the agreements, all the understandings that were reached on the needed ceasefire and the beginning of negotiations, which I’ve already said [before],” Lavrov said.

On August 17, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Pavlo Klimkin said in an interview on Germany’s Deutschlandfunk radio station that he had turned to the EU and NATO for military aid.

Klimkin said the problem lays in the militia in southeastern Ukraine who refused to enter a dialogue with Ukrainian servicemen. The minister specifically named Germany as the party that could contribute to defuse the conflict.

Since mid-April, Kiev has been conducting a military operation against the southeastern regions of Ukraine that had refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new government after the February coup.

Russia has repeatedly condemned Kiev’s actions and urged for peaceful dialogue with representatives of Ukraine’s southeastern regions.

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