Russian Foreign Minister said he did not rule out US military intervention in Venezuela

"Knowing the approaches of the American administration, anything is possible. I do not rule out that I can launch actions that will violate all possible rules again of international law ", Mr. Lavrov answered a question of whether he considered a US military intervention in Venezuela possible.

According to the Russian Minister, the US special envoy for Venezuela, Elliot Abrams, does not hide that one of its functions is not the search for a peaceful settlement of the crisis in this Latin American country.

"Abrams is exclusively interested in stirring up tension and creating a situation that provokes, as the United States wants, an explosion, the bloodshed in Venezuela, which justifies a military intervention.", stressed Lavrov, who expressed the hope that Washington"common sense prevails"

At the same time, the head of Russian diplomacy said that there was information that "The United States plans to buy small arms, mortars, hand-held surface-to-air missiles and other weapons to send them to countries close to Venezuela."

According to Lavrov, the transport of such weapons would be carried out with the help of "an airline of one of the most obedient regimes, or rather, the regime absolutely obedient to Washington in the post-Soviet space", in reference to the Government of Ukraine.

"Of course, we see these intentions, as many countries see, including Venezuela's neighbors. Brazil and Colombia declared that they would not support a military intervention"said the minister.

He added that "if the neighbors of Venezuela hold their words and remain firmly in this position, the American plans will not materialize"

"I hope the absolute rejection, I would say universal, in the world of armed solutions will cool Washington's hot heads, although there is nothing that can stop," he said. .

(With EFE information)