Ukraine Crisis Close to Civil War, Russian Foreign Minister Says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov believes the crisis in Ukraine is bordering on civil war, and he wants to know if American mercenaries are partly to blame.

"When Ukrainians kill Ukrainians, I believe this is as close to a civil war you can get," the Russian diplomat said to Bloomberg's Ryan Chilcote in an interview that aired Wednesday morning in the United States

Lavrov then questioned German media reports of American mercenaries at work in Ukraine in the interview

“I sent a message through our ambassador to Washington asking [they] respond to these assertions in the German media," he said. "Rumors to this effect were spread before and John Kerry rejected them. Now they popped up again and we would like to see whether this is true or not," he said. Read more...