“We have absolutely no intention of — or interest in — crossing Ukraine's borders.”

— Sergey Lavrov

"Russia Says It Doesn't Plan To Invade Ukraine" https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/03/29/296247981/russia-says-it-doesn-t-plan-to-invade-ukraine, NPR, 29 March 2014
About the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014

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