Russia warned the United States against supplying lethal weapons to Ukraine after a report surfaced that the United States is planning to do so. On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the Pentagon and the US State Department have prepared a plan to supply Ukraine with antitank missiles and other weaponry. The unnamed high-ranked officials cited by the publication claimed that defensive weapons are required by Ukraine to protect it against the aggression of its Larger neighbor Russia, which annexed the Crimean Peninsula back in 2014 and has been accused of playing part in the separatist movements in the eastern region of Ukraine.

Mikhail Ulyanov, the head of the Russian foreign ministry’s Department for Non-Proliferation and Arms Control warned against such a move by saying that it might escalate violence, which has died down in recent months. He said, ““The masterminds of the plan to supply lethal weapons to Ukraine, apparently, proceed from the assumption that the situation in the east of this country isn’t explosive enough already and that it’s needed to add fuel to the fire”. He said the Ukraine has no one to defend from since the separatist forces are not moving to expand territories.

Kremlin press secretary, Dmitry Peskov, too pointed out the counter-productive nature of such arms supplies. He said, “Our stance is well-known: we believe that all countries, especially those that are looking to be part of the settlement [of the Ukrainian conflict], must avoid any sort of actions which can provoke another spike in tensions in the already difficult region”.

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