Russia today accused the West of pushing Ukraine into a 'fratricidal war' and repeated Moscow's calls for an end to the interim Ukrainian government's military action against pro-Kremlin separatists SIA reports quoting the Dailymail.
The remarks from Sergei Lavrov, the foreign minister, were in line with frequent Russian statements placing blame on the United States and EU for the turmoil in Ukraine, where government forces killed dozens of rebels in the eastern Donetsk province on Monday and Tuesday.
"The people of Ukraine are in essence being pushed into the abyss of fratricidal (conflict within a single organization) war" Russian news agencies quoted Lavrov as saying at a ministry reception attended by the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill.
But he was robustly countered by Ukraine's president-elect who vowed that his tough crackdown would flush out the separatists.
Lavrov did not name any nation but made clear he was blaming the West, saying Ukraine's crisis was caused by 'efforts to use the country not as a unifying link between different parts of the Eurasian space, which is its absolutely natural role, but as a watershed between the west and east of the European continent.
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