Russia hopes the United States will have enough common sense to avoid a direct clash between the two over events in Ukraine, Alexander Darchiev, the State Department’s director for North America, said today.
The senior diplomat stated that Moscow is confident that Washington would not take things to a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States, otherwise the severing of diplomatic relations with all the ensuing consequences could become a reality.
With the decision to isolate Moscow, Washington is now trying to turn things around, as if it wasn’t the current administration that brought these ties to a point of no return, he added.
Darchiev stressed that Russia will not move towards breaking off relations, but will not tolerate provocations that leave no options either.
The diplomat also pointed out that in the case of Ukraine there can be no serious negotiations as long as arms supplies continue and the trainers and Western mercenaries remain in the neighboring state and until the realities defined by Russia regarding the country.
Darchiev recalled that a year ago Moscow “made an honest attempt at negotiations and put on the table two draft legally binding documents” on security guarantees with the United States and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but he was ignored.
Meanwhile, under the protection of the Minsk agreements, they have re-equipped the Ukrainian army and prepared it to destroy the Donbass, and under these conditions Russia cannot trust the United States and the West, he specified.