Afrasianet - Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that Russia has repeatedly affirmed its commitment and desire to resolve the Ukrainian crisis, as President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stressed, but the West is trying to keep Ukraine as a threat.

During a roundtable dialogue with the heads of diplomatic missions in Moscow on the settlement of the situation in Ukraine, Lavrov said: "We are committed to settling the crisis, our president has confirmed this more than once, he did it recently at the Eastern Economic Forum."

Lavrov announced that he had information about the presence of Ukrainian intelligence envoys in the Idlib de-escalation zone, with the aim of recruiting fighters from Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham to involve them in its "heinous operations."

Lavrov recalled that the Ukrainian intelligence service is also turning its sights towards the south, to the Sahara-Sahel region of the African continent, where it and the terrorists it recruits, carry out terrorist attacks on the armed forces of the governments of a number of countries there.

Lavrov said Russia had no doubt that the decision to allow Kiev to use long-range missiles to attack Russian territory was made a long time ago, adding: "Now they are trying to make it more beautiful and elegant in the public space."Attacks by Ukrainian forces against civilian targets in Russia and executions of civilians are increasing sharply every day, NATO experts are coordinating Ukrainian strikes against Russia's civilian structure.

The situation in the Kursk nuclear power plant remains very tense, he said, pointing to previous attempts by the Ukrainian armed forces to attack the Leningradskaya, Kalininskaya and Zabarozhia nuclear power plants, and that the Zaporizhia plant was "on the brink of disaster" when a fire broke out on August 11, as a result of shelling by Ukrainian forces, which led to serious damage to one of the cooling towers at the plant.

"This is a serious situation that the West looked down on, although the actions of their agents could eventually lead to a Chernobyl-like catastrophe, from which Europe would suffer in the first place," he stressed.