MOSCOW. March 22 (Interfax) - Moscow urges Washington not to follow a dangerous escalation course as regards the situation in Ukraine, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said.
"We're urging the American side not to follow the escalation course," Ryabkov told journalists in Moscow, while commenting on calls by U.S. Congress members to supply Ukraine with cluster munitions.
Even regardless of how acceptable it is to use cluster munitions as such, "it's much more important that the U.S. is demonstrating its intention to follow an escalation path every day," he said.
"The danger of this course is obvious to us, we see that there are virtually no types of weapons and military hardware that may not be supplied to Ukraine. Increasingly deadlier, longer-range, and more sophisticated systems have been considered for saturating the battlefield on the Ukrainian side with them, and thus the U.S. again and again confirms its status as a party practically directly involved in this conflict," Ryabkov said.
U.S. Congress members "seem not to realize how this could affect the security of the North Atlantic alliance led by the U.S. and a prospect of at least relative normalization of our relations with Washington in general," he said.