He stated this in a comment. TASS on the evening of January 14th.
US national security adviser Jake Sullivan said on January 13 that during the day the White House will publish intelligence data on Russia’s plans for Ukraine. The next day, a number of Western media, including CNN and the agency Reutersreported, referring to interlocutors in the White House, that Russia sent saboteurs to the east of Ukraine for provocation. A media source said that the saboteurs were trained to conduct combat operations in urban environments.
Peskov, commenting on publications in the media, said that “dSo far, all these statements have been unfounded and have not been confirmed by anything.
However, on the same day White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said: Russia is preparing the groundwork to be able to create an excuse to invade, “including through subversive activities.”
“The operatives are trained in urban warfare and the use of explosives to carry out sabotage against Russian puppet forces. Our information also indicates that Russian actors are already beginning to fabricate Ukrainian provocations on state and social media to justify the Russian invasion and sow division in Ukraine “, the White House speaker said.
Spring 2021 Russia build up troops near the border with Ukraine and in the occupied Crimea. At the end of October, the American media began to report that Russia again pulling troops to the border with Ukraine.
Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Alexei Danilov said on December 22 that in the zone 200 km from the country’s border there are 122 thousand Russian military.
In the Kremlin called reports about the preparation of the invasion “stuffing” and accused Kiev of preparing to aggression “against the “LPR” and “DPR”. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry refuted the disinformation of the Russian Federation about alleged preparations for a military attack in the Donbass.
The United States and NATO have repeatedly urged Russia to de-escalate tensions at the border.
December 17 Russian Foreign Ministry circulated Russian draft treaty with the US and agreements with NATO on so-called security guarantees. In particular, they say that the United States must commit itself to exclude further NATO expansion “eastwards”, to refuse admission to the Alliance of states that were previously part of the USSR.
10th, 12th and 13th of January negotiations between Russia and the United States, NATO and the OSCE on security. As a result, Russia stated that did not receive any guarantees from the USA and NATO, US representatives said that pered RF worth the choice: de-escalation and diplomacy or confrontation and consequences. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the issue of Ukraine’s accession to NATO can only be discussed by Ukraine and 30 member countries of the Alliance, and emphasized: Russia poses a threat to Ukraine, and not vice versa.
As noted by Reuters, cyberattack on Ukrainian government websites heated up the situation even more after the talks reached a deadlock.
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