US Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov held bilateral talks on Wednesday, on the sidelines of a two-day NATO summit in Brussels.<br /><br />Lavrov said he doesn’t agree with NATO condemning the use of excessive force by Ukraine authorities against protesters. He said that outsiders should not interfere in the situation.<br /><br />“That is a completely wrong interpretation of what is happening. Our position is that this is an internal matter for Ukraine. I do not understand the scale of the fairly aggressive actions of the opposition. The president of the Russian Federation, President Putin, has already spoken on this issue,” said Lavrov.<br /><br />Meanwhile Ukraine’s President Viktor Yanukovytch is on a state visit to China. Ukraine has already received loans worth seven billion euros from China which perhaps explains his journey there. He is scheduled to sign economic and trade agreements.
