Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoli Antonov, today rejected continued accusations against his country that he is planning an attack on Ukraine, an assumption that only escalates tensions, in Moscow’s opinion.
During an interview granted to the Face the Nation program of the CBS News television network, the diplomat clarified that his intention was not to participate in any discussion, only to express “our position and I will start with the basics. There is no invasion and there are no such plans.”
Antonov recalled that “Russia publicly declared its readiness to continue diplomatic efforts to resolve all outstanding issues.”
“By the way (…). Each state has the right to protect its limits and borders”, she emphasized, insisting that “the Russian Federation, the United States, as well as any state, have that right. It is not an exception. Russian troops are on sovereign Russian territory. We are not threatening anyone.”
The representative of the Eurasian nation asked why other countries try to impose their decisions on theirs, “where to deploy our troops and how many on our own territory.”
“Can you imagine that Russia imposes on the United States not to deploy its forces in Florida or San Francisco?”, he pointed out and recalled that Washington has a large deployment of military bases in the world.
Press media published this Sunday that President Joe Biden would be willing to meet with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, “if a war in Ukraine is avoided,” according to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
The head of US diplomacy told CNN the same opinion matrix that is propagated about the Russian attack on Ukraine and “everything we are seeing suggests that this is very serious, that we are on the verge of an invasion.”
The newspaper Politico even announced that it would be “after February 20”, the probable date for the war to break out, although that same media outlet gave the 16th of the month itself as day zero, citing alleged high-level sources. .
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called the Western news coverage of the “ghost war” against Ukraine “information terrorism.”
For their part, some analysts are of the opinion that the United States-Russia-Ukraine issue is just a smokescreen that hides the multiple problems that the Biden administration is going through.
November will be the mid-term elections and Democrats could lose control in both houses of Congress if voters take to the polls their frustration with rising inflation, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and campaign promises still unfulfilled. by the ruling Democrat.
