Russia described this Friday as “absurd” the Statements by US authorities regarding the alleged preparation of a fake video to use it as a pretext for attacking Ukraine.
“The absurd character of these reflections, which are increasing with each day, is evident to any analyst with some knowledge,” Russian Foreign Ministry Segei Lavrov said in an interview with the Ren TV channel.
US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby said the day before that Russia “might produce a graphic propaganda video, with corpses and actors pretending to be people in mourning” to justify its attack on Ukraine.
In that sense, those weapons might be represented in such a way that they appear to have been supplied by West to Ukraine, Kirby said.
The Pentagon spokesman reiterated thate The US has information on attempts to Moscow to fabricate a pretext to invade Ukraine.
“One option is for the Russian government to plan fake a fake attack by the armed forces or Ukrainian intelligence once morest sovereign Russian territory or once morest Russian-speakers to justify their actions,” he said.
In turn, the Russian foreign spokeswoman, María Zajárova, called on the West on Friday to stop supplying weapons to Ukraine, so as not to impede the peaceful solution of the conflict in the east of the country.
“We call on NATO countries to immediately stop instigating hysteria around the internal Ukrainian conflict and stop military supplies to Kiev, as one of the parties to the conflict in eastern Ukraine,” Zakharova told a news conference.
Tension has skyrocketed in the last month due to the mobilization of more than 100,000 Russian soldiers on the border with Ukraine, which has led the US and Russia to engage in a propaganda battle.
Moscow has reiterated on several occasions that it does not want a war with Kiev, while Washington has been warning for days of an “imminent” attack, although this Wednesday it changed its speech and chose to speak of a possible Russian aggression “at any moment”.