"Polish authorities are keen to establish control over western Ukraine," said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Sergei Viktorovich Lavrov is a Russian diplomat and has been foreign minister since 2004.

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"I do not rule out the Polish proposal to send NATO peacekeepers to Ukraine that Warsaw wants to establish control over the western part of Ukraine. Poland has a great historical sentiment towards this part of Ukraine (until the partition of Poland in the late eighteenth century the current Ukrainian city of Lviv and the surrounding areas were under Polish rule), "the number one diplomat said during a meeting with students and professors at the Moscow Institute of International Affairs.

Lavrov also commented on the talks between Russia and Ukraine.

"The dialogue is difficult. The reason for this is not in our country. The representatives of Kyiv are delaying the dialogue, changing their positions every hour," he added.

"Procrastination of the dialogue is beneficial for the United States. While the negotiations are ongoing, the arms concerns can sell more of their goods to Kyiv," the minister added.

Regarding the sanctions against his country imposed by the European Union, Britain, the United States and other countries, Lavrov said: In the West, they always say that they impose sanctions not against ordinary citizens, but against the regimes.

However, this has nothing to do with the truth.

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