US Department of State BuildingWASHINGTON, Jan 20The U.S. State Department, through the mouth of an anonymous official, again issued unfounded accusations against Russian media outlets, including RIA Novosti, RT and Sputnik, saying that they were allegedly participating in a disinformation campaign against Ukraine. his name, allegedly «the FSB directly instructs and influences proxy media in order to publish content that discredits and falsely accuses Ukraine.» According to him, «articles that appear in these proxy media end up not only in such official media as RIA Novosti, RT and Sputnik, but also in others.»
America asked the main Russian questions «Russian state-owned and state-controlled media, such as RT and Sputnik, play a key role in how Russia uses disinformation to advance its foreign policy,» the official said. However, he did not provide any evidence for his claims. In addition, he said the US is «aware of ongoing Russian military intelligence activities to spread disinformation and propaganda aimed at undermining, demoralizing and discrediting Ukrainian government organizations.»
West to Ukraine: «I gave birth to you, I will kill you» The State Department said that the Russian Federation is fabricating information about Ukraine's upcoming provocations and the deterioration of human rights in the country. The situation with the Russian media in the West has become more and more complicated in recent years. In November 2016, the European Parliament adopted a resolution stating the need to counter the Russian media, with Sputnik and RT named as the main threats in the document. A number of Western politicians, including US senators and congressmen, as well as the President of France, accused Sputnik and RT of interfering in the elections in the US and France, but did not provide any evidence. Official Russian representatives called such statements unfounded.Former NATO Secretary General spoke about Putin's «frightening» joke about the alliance The Russian Foreign Ministry called accusations against Moscow about a possible escalation of the situation around Ukraine a provocation and a bluff: they are used as a pretext to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously noted that Western statements about «Russian aggression» and the possibility of helping Kiev defend itself against it are both ridiculous and dangerous. At the same time, Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» sides of Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion. According to him, this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone. Relations between Moscow and Kiev deteriorated after the reunification of Crimea with Russia and against the background of the armed conflict in the Donbass. The Ukrainian authorities have repeatedly accused Russia of interfering in the internal affairs of the state, and in January 2015 they officially declared it an «aggressor country.» The Russian Federation has repeatedly stressed that it does not participate in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and is not a subject of the Minsk agreements.
