Weapons that can reach Russia an 'unacceptable escalation' - Lavrov

Weapons that can reach Russia an 'unacceptable escalation' - Lavrov

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov warns Western deliveries to Ukraine of weapons that can reach Russia could lead to an "unacceptable escalation", Qazet.az reports.

In comments in an interview with RT Arabic, quoted by the Tass news agency, he says: 

"The West called for defeating Russia on the battlefield, and for this it is necessary... to pump weapons to Ukrainian nationalists, the Ukrainian regime, including weapons that can reach the Russian Federation."

"These are the weapons that Zelensky publicly demands," he says.

"We warned the West in the most serious way that they are already, in fact, waging a proxy war with the Russian Federation but this will be a serious step towards an unacceptable escalation," Lavrov said.