"We urge our European colleagues to make steps in order to make peace (in Ukraine) as soon as possible," the top diplomat said, emphasizing that his country is against deploying NATO troops in the conflict zone. "We definitely don’t like these statements, decisions and initatives which bring forward the risk of escalation.
Now, obviously, sending troops to Ukraine brings forward a serious risk of escalation of this war. Because in case there is a direct confrontation between the troops of a NATO state and the troops of the Russian Federation, there comes an immediate threat of the World War III," he stated, TASS reported.
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