On Wednesday, US and NATO officials said they saw no sign of a Russian pullback from areas near Ukraine after the Russian Defense Ministry announced troops were starting to leave the region.
“There’s what Russia says and then there’s what Russia does. And we haven’t seen any pullback of its forces,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken told MSNBC. “We continue to see critical units moving toward the border, not away from the border.”
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg also said he hadn’t seen a Russian pullback from the region. In Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov responded to Stoltenberg’s comments and said the NATO chief had assessed the situation incorrectly.
Peskov said NATO has a problem with its system for “evaluating ongoing events” if it does not see troops leaving the area. “NATO has a problem, and that problem is in its situation assessment system,” he said.
Russia’s Defense Ministry released a video it said showed military equipment crossing the Crimean bridge from Crimea into Russia as part of the pullback. But the US State Department dismissed the video as “propaganda.”
Meanwhile, other Russian officials mocked Western media for its predictions that Russia would invade Ukraine on February 16th. “I’d like to request US and British disinformation: Bloomberg, The New York Times and The Sun media outlets to publish the schedule for our upcoming invasions for the year. I’d like to plan my vacation,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Telegram.
Ukrainian officials also had harsh words for Western media over the invasion claims. David Arakhamia, the head of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s Servant of the People party, said the media “hysteria is now costing the country $2-3 billion every month.”
Arakhamia said outlets such as CNN, Bloomberg, and The Wall Street Journal were disseminating fake news. “We should study this because they are elements of hybrid warfare,” he said.
Disinformation from us….. We never disinform….
We never interfere with other countries’ elections either.
The Amerikan govt. would never lie. Well there was time about WOMD and Gulf of Tokin and then ?
Amerikan govt. has never told the turth
So true, so true…
“US and Russian Officials at Odds Over Status of Russian Troops Near Ukraine”
That’s been true for the past year, certainly the last three months or more.
Bernhard joked on his blog:
Can someone ask these morons how it’s any of our business where Russia places its troops on its own territory? Please?
Just heard, Gulf of Tonkin episode has just occurred on the line of contact in Donetk. Ukrainian troops shelling Donetz after the US puppet Zelenskyy claims a kindergarten was shelled out of tge blue by separatists. Different but expected.
Russia’s response has been published.
It does not mince words.
Basically, US and NATO are niot taking Russia’s concerns for the security in Europe. And will undertake military-technical measures.
Americans will suffer amnesia about all the dire warnings on an imminent invasion of Ukraine by Russia as soon as the lies about China’s imminent invasion of Taiwan are broadcast.
Perhaps when all US troops find themselves located/stationed/garrisoned in the actual United States themselves, this won’t be such a big problem anymore…