Russia rejects the US-European security proposals for Ukraine and condemns the Trump administration for seizing the Russian-flagged tanker, Bloomberg reports
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- Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova calls the statements in Paris “militarist declarations” from an “axis of war,” rejecting them as “dangerous” and “destructive”; said Western troops in Ukraine will “be considered legitimate military targets for the Russian Armed Forces”.
- And in a further statement the Russian foreign ministry directly condemns the US for seizing its tanker “The landing by U.S. troops on a civilian vessel in open sea and its actual seizure, as well as the capture of the crew cannot be interpreted as anything but a massive violation of the fundamental principles and norms of international maritime law, and also freedom of navigation," the Russian Foreign Ministry said.
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