# Lavrov: West unreliable, deployment of troops to Ukraine would mean direct war with Russia

https://mins.news/en/item/61072

- TASS, 2026-09-16 14:06 UTC
- World
- Original: https://tass.com/politics/2188521

> Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Western countries had proved unreliable and that Russia had never rejected talks on Ukraine, including in bilateral or trilateral formats. He warned that deploying Western military contingents in Ukraine would amount to Europe declaring direct, rather than hybrid, war on Russia.

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