Meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York will not take place, as the countries "have nothing to talk about," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov regarding the possibility of such a meeting, reports News.bg.
Russia insists that the United States should heed warnings about the risks of further escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, Ryabkov said, quoted by "Reuters."
Maria Zakharova, spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, stressed that giving Kiev carte blanche to strike at significant distances deep into Russia would change the nature of the conflict.
"We want to remind hawks on both sides of the Atlantic that they are playing with fire and have lost all sense of reality," she pointed out at a briefing.
"The scale of the conflict, which started because of the actions of the West, risks taking on a completely different character, which could lead to dangerous consequences for the whole world," warned Zakharova.