Russia has issued a stark warning to the United States regarding the potential for further escalation in the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. According to Russian state-run news agency RIA Novosti, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov emphasized the need for the US to take Moscow’s concerns seriously. He dismissed the possibility of a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US State Secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, stating that “there is nothing to talk about.”
Separately, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova voiced serious concerns about the potential for Ukraine to launch long-range strikes deep into Russian territory. Zakharova asserted that such actions would fundamentally alter the nature of the conflict and could have dire consequences for the entire world. In a pointed statement, she declared, “We would like to remind the hawks on both sides of the Atlantic… They are playing with fire and have lost all sense of reality. The scale of conflict which started because of the West risks becoming completely different, which could bring dangerous consequences for the whole world.”
