Russia sees no reason to suspect that the negotiations on the Ukrainian settlement with the participation of the US are a "smokescreen", the top diplomat said MOSCOW, March 5. /TASS/. The West's war against Russia is no longer hybrid, but direct and "hot," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at an embassy round table on the settlement of the conflict in Ukraine. He also said the North Atlantic Alliance is being drawn into the war that the US and Israel have unleashed against Iran. TASS