MOSCOW. Feb 15 (Interfax) - Russia will be doing in its territory what it deems to be necessary for national security, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday.
"The speculative claims that the Russian-Belarusian exercise has been organized to attack Ukraine from the north and take over Kyiv, all those completely paranoid scenarios have been published many times, and by respectable media outlets," Lavrov said at a press conference in Moscow.
As to the Western call for withdrawing troops from the Ukrainian border and stopping the exercise, Lavrov said, "Russia has made its plans and is sticking with them."
"In our territory, we will do whatever we need, whatever we deem necessary for our security, and we reject the attempt of our Western colleagues to interpret the OSCE principle and obligation to ensure indivisible security in a way that they allegedly know better how to provide the security of Russia," Lavrov said.