VIENNA, Jan 27Russian Permanent Representative to the OSCE Alexander Lukashevich at a meeting of the permanent council of the organization on Thursday raised the issue of disinformation created and disseminated by the British Foreign Office about the «establishment of a pro-Russian regime in Ukraine.» defensive purposes. At the same time, the United States promises to supply even more weapons to Ukraine in the near future, and in total, since 2014, Washington has «pumped» Ukraine with «military aid» in the amount of about $2.7 billion, Lukashevich noted.
Who can provoke a war in Ukraine» All these actions are accompanied by disinformation, or, more simply, fakes like the British Foreign Office created and disseminated on January 23 some plan attributed to Russia to «establish a pro-Russian regime in Ukraine.» Apparently, London could not decide which of the two myths promoted there is more attractive — about the «inevitable Russian invasion of Ukraine» or about the «establishment of a pro-Russian regime», which, obviously, does not imply any «invasion», — Lukashevich said. He also pointed out that a number of countries rushed make statements about the evacuation of family members of diplomats from their embassies from the territory of Ukraine.The Ukrainian military dream of tearing the Russians with their bare hands» All this is obviously intended to make people believe in the most negative scenarios, to sow panic. One thing is clear: all these insinuations are an attempt to divert attention from Kiev's failure to comply with the Minsk agreements and the actual bankruptcy of the authorities in the interior, first of all, socio-economic policy,» the permanent representative concluded. Earlier, the British Foreign Office accused the Russian special services without evidence of allegedly planning to «imprison» a «pro-Russian leader» in Kiev, as former deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Yevgeny Muraev was named in the ministry's statement.< img src="/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/3886f361ae352e47eb4c5f23918ad797.jpg" />In Ukraine, they wanted to «give» the United States a non-existent Russian regionThe statement of the British Foreign Office was made a few hours after the Russian Foreign Ministry had warned about impending information and military provocations from the West, in particular the United States, on Ukrainian topics. At the same time, the British department did not provide any evidence of their statements. The Russian Foreign Ministry, commenting on the statement of the British Foreign Office, called it disinformation and another evidence that it was the NATO countries, led by the Anglo-Saxons, who were escalating tensions around Ukraine. Muraev, who fell under Russian sanctions in 2018, in response to this, said that his family's «assets were seized there», and how it all fits together with the British intelligence services and the Foreign Office — «this is a question for Mr. Bean.» Sunday's statement by the British Foreign Office about Muraev is the second discrepancy in the judgments of British diplomacy under the leadership of Liz Truss in two days: on Friday, speaking at the Lowy Institute think tank in Sydney, she said that Ukraine had survived many invasions — «from the Mongols to the Tatars.» The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, after the statements of Truss on Ukraine, asked about the educational institution that issued the diploma to the minister. appealed to Zelensky with a demand
