Canberra. File photoMOSCOW, Jan 30Australian Finance Minister Simon Burmingham said that the country will not deploy military forces and participate in a possible conflict in connection with the aggravation of the situation around Ukraine. The Russian Federation draws attention to the fact that the United States and the West are hysterically developing the theme of the threat and escalation in Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied these allegations. NATO's «enhanced capability» partner status was introduced in 2014 to build a deeper, more specialized bilateral relationship with the alliance. in this kind of conflict,» Burmingham said during a briefing. However, according to the head of the Ministry of Finance, Canberra continues to cooperate with Kiev on the issue of providing assistance. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow are categorically denied and constantly declare that no one threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said earlier, 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 Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. necessary to speculate on the situation with Ukraine
