MOSCOW, Jan 28 Budapest received a request from the United States for the deployment of additional troops, now the issue is being coordinated Defense Ministry, Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Thursday. Sky News reported on Thursday that NATO member countries are considering setting up new 1,000-strong combat units in Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Slovakia. It is noted that the new divisions will be similar to those that exist in the Baltic countries and Poland.Hungary spoke about expectations from the talks between Russia and NATO «We really received a request from the United States to deploy foreign troops. The Ministry of Defense is coordinating this issue. I have not heard from anyone about a thousand people,» Szijjarto said at a briefing. The broadcast was conducted on his Facebook account. Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and claims of «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry noted earlier that Western statements about «Russian aggression» and the possibility of helping Kiev defend itself against it are both ridiculous and dangerous. 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. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said, Russia does not create any pretexts for a conflict situation around Ukraine. According to him, Russia does not rule out that the hysteria around Ukraine, hyped by the West, is aimed at covering Kiev's line of sabotaging the Minsk agreements on Donbass. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation, the information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. deployment of NATO troops in the country
