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Moscow Rejects Washington’s Claims on Crimea as Groundless

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Moscow is ready to participate in sincere dialogue with the US on Ukraine, but rejects Washington’s “groundless and unsubstantiated claims” on Crimea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

MOSCOW, April 24 (RIA Novosti) – Moscow is ready to participate in sincere dialogue with the US on Ukraine, but rejects Washington’s “groundless and unsubstantiated claims” on Crimea, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Thursday.

“We are open to a sincere dialogue, but we reject the groundless and unsubstantiated claims having as unique aim the presentation of the situation in Crimea in a distorted way. Similar methods, by the way, are applied to show, at all costs, a ‘Russian trace’ in the protests of the desperate people in southeastern Ukraine,” the ministry said.

Russia hopes that the United States will stop the “far-fetched insinuations” against Russia in order to resolve the Ukrainian crisis cooperatively, the Ministry said.

“We would like to hope that the United States will stop the far-fetched insinuations against Russia, for the benefit of joint work to help Ukraine overcome the severe internal crisis caused by February’s coup in Kiev,” the ministry said.

US President Barack Obama earlier accused Russia of failing to comply with the Geneva deal reached last week to de-escalate the crisis in Ukraine. The US leader said Thursday that if the behavior continues "there will be further consequences and we will ramp up further sanctions." He said Russia could face sanctions within a matter of days.

Following the regime change in Ukraine in February, Crimea refused to recognize the legitimacy of the new authorities and held a referendum that resulted in its reunification with Russia.

The US, EU and their allies introduced sanctions against several Russian politicians, lawmakers and businessmen, freezing their assets and banning them from receiving visas.

The G7 countries also threatened Russia with broad economic sanctions in case of further escalation of the situation in Ukraine. Russia's Foreign Ministry earlier said that talking to Russia in the language of sanctions was "inappropriate and counterproductive" and warned its Western partners of the "boomerang effect."

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