Ukrainian Defense Minister Alexei Reznik announced that his country’s intelligence had not recorded any operations to form strike groups on Ukraine’s borders.
“To this day, our intelligence has not detected any operation to form a strike group, but that does not mean that they will not be able to deploy it if they want to, for this reason the risks remain,” Reznik said, in an interview with “ICTV” channel, on Sunday evening.
Reznik explained that the deployment of such a strike group “may require a period of one week to half a month, depending on the plan of the Russian Federation.”
NATO member states claim that Russia is amassing large forces, numbering more than 100,000, near the border with Ukraine, “in preparation for an imminent invasion” of Ukrainian territory.
The Russian government has repeatedly stressed that it has no intention of launching any operation once morest Ukraine, stressing that all reports that speak of this are false and the purpose of these allegations is to escalate tension in the region and fuel anti-Russian rhetoric in preparation for new economic sanctions and justify NATO’s expansion to the east, which it opposes. Moscow strongly, saying that it threatens Russian security.
Source: agencies
