Borrell’s statement about military solution in Ukraine "extraordinary" — Lavrov - TASS

European foreign policy chief Josep Borrell’s remarks to the effect a military solution in Ukraine has no alternatives are extraordinary and considerably change the rules of the game, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told the Rossiya-24 round-the-clock television news channel in an interview.

"When the chief diplomat of an individual country or some organization - in this particular case Josep Borrell represents the diplomacy of the European Union - says outright that a certain conflict can be resolved exclusively by military means, this means that he has committed a slip of the tongue or a blunder and said something nobody had empowered him to say. Anyway, this statement is something out of the ordinary, of course," Lavrov agreed.

"The very fact that Borrell said this against an unprecedented, aggressive background, in fact considerably changes the rules of the game, if you wish. The European Union has not acted as a military organization ever before," Lavrov said, adding that the Foreign Ministry would analyze these statements within two days and make an official comment.

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