US should listen to Moscow warnings on Ukraine, RIA cites Russian deputy foreign min saying

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting on operational issues, outside Moscow

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov attends a meeting chaired by Russian President Vladimir Putin on operational issues, including the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict and the continuing conflict between Israel and Hamas, at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow, Russia October 16, 2023. Sputnik/Gavriil Grigorov/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

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The United States should take into account Moscow's warnings on risks of further escalation around the conflict in Ukraine, Russia's state-run news agency RIA Novosti cited Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Friday.

Commenting on the possibility of a meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. State Secretary Antony Blinken on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York, he said there will not be any meeting as the sides have "nothing to talk about".

Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said separately that giving carte blanche for Kyiv to carry out long-range strikes deep inside Russia would change the nature of the conflict in Ukraine.

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"We would like to remind the hawks on both sides of the Atlantic... They are playing with fire and have lost all sense of reality," she told a briefing.

"The scale of conflict which started because of the West risks becoming completely different, which could bring dangerous consequences for the whole world."

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