Lavrov explains Russian-Ukrainian relations

   April-22-2015       
   
"In order to keep the country stable, to keep it friendly to us and to Europe in no case can it be torn to pieces,"

Russian foreign minister Lavrov said.  https://censor.net.ua/en/news/333611/it_is_in_our_interests_not_tear_ukraine_apart_but_to_make_it_neutral_in_military_and_political_sense    
    Yep:  Russia"to keep Ukraine friendly to us."
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4-7-2014  "Assertions that Russia has undermined efforts to strengthen partnerships on the European continent do not correspond to the facts.  On the contrary, our country has steadily promoted a system of equal and indivisible security in the Euro-Atlantic area."    -Lavrov   https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/apr/07/sergei-lavrov-russia-stabilise-ukraine-west
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12-17-2014    Perelman asked Lavrov for his reaction to unanimous votes by the U.S. House and Senate to pass the Ukraine Freedom Support Act of 2014.  That measure authorizes (but stops short of requiring) military assistance for Ukraine as well as significant new sanctions on Russia’s energy sector, according to Bloomberg.  "Congress is a very special group of people,"

Lavrov said.  "More than 80% of them never left the United States.  They live in their own walls.  So I’m not amazed about this Russophobia which is being displayed by the Congress at the moment."       https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2014/dec/17/sergey-lavrov/russian-foreign-minister-sergey-lavrov-says-80-us-/

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11-30-2018     "We note with great concern recent reports that Russia has illegally conscripted more than 12,000 Ukrainians in Crimea into Russia's military since 2014.  This forced conscription runs counter to international humanitarian law and must end immediately," Chargé d'Affaires Harry Kamian of the United States said at an OSCE Permanent Council meeting in Vienna, Austria, on November 29.
 https://www.unian.info/politics/10358148-u-s-mission-to-osce-calls-on-russia-to-stop-illegal-conscription-of-ukrainians-in-crimea.html  

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9-12-2018   MOSCOW (Reuters) - “We are ready to cover our part of the way to drive the mutual ties from the impasse,”

Lavrov said in an interview with Germany’s DPA news agency published on his ministry’s website on Thursday.  Lavrov added however that the situation between the two governments kept worsening due to Washington actions.   

                                   in Moscow, Russia August 30, 2018.    -REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov

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