Russia said on Friday that Western proposals for security guarantees for Ukraine would increase the risk of conflict between Moscow and the West by turning Kiev into a "strategic provocateur" on Russia's borders, Reuters reports.
Ukraine's European allies are working to draft a set of guarantees for Ukraine that could be part of a potential peace deal and would be designed to protect Kiev from a possible future attack by Russia.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Thursday that he expected the framework of the security guarantees to be determined as early as next week.
"Security guarantees should be based on reaching a common understanding that takes into account Russia's security interests," Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Friday.
She told a news briefing in Moscow that the current proposals were "one-sided and clearly designed to contain Russia.".
"This line (of proposals) violates the principle of indivisible security and assigns Kiev the role of a strategic provocateur of Russia's borders, increasing the risk of NATO getting involved in an armed conflict with our country."
Moscow has already said that it does not like the European proposals and will not accept any presence of NATO troops on Ukrainian territory.