A Ukrainian serviceman walks along a trench at a position on the frontline with Russia-backed separatists near Gorlivka, Donetsk region, on April 14, 2021.
Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said during a press conference with his Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian counterparts that Russian pundits and officials are "openly threatening Ukraine with war and the destruction of Ukrainian statehood." "The red line of Ukraine is the state border. If Russia crosses the red line, then it will have to suffer," he added.
"The world is on the side of Ukraine and international law, and this is one of the elements of restraining Russia from reckless actions," he added.Kiev has been fighting pro-Russian separatists in two breakaway regions in the east of the country since 2014 when Moscow annexed the Crimean peninsula from Ukraine.
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