Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at the meeting of the UN Security CouncilUN, Jan 31Russian Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzya said that he did not know where Western countries got the data on 100,000 Russian troops near Ukraine. Answering a journalist’s question about “how many military there actually are,” Nebenzya said: “I don’t know. We never mentioned any numbers.» «I have no idea where the figure of 100,000 military men came from,» he added. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell was waving a test tube of an unknown substance in this room as evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The weapons were never found, but everyone knows what happened to the country,» he said. Powell was one of the main participants in the events that preceded US invasion of Iraq in 2003. Then, on February 5, at a meeting of the UN Security Council, Powell said that he had received information about Saddam Hussein's alleged technologies for the production of biological weapons. To prove these words, Powell showed a vial of white powder, claiming that it contained a sample of weapons of mass destruction produced in Iraq. It later turned out that Powell was misinformed by the CIA: the test tubes turned out to be fake.Consequences of tough US sanctions against Russia disclosed “Since our American colleagues have gathered us today, let them present at least some evidence other than fabrications that Russia is going to attack Ukraine. My American colleague’s speech contained enough accusations of Russia’s aggressive actions, but not a single concrete fact «, — said Nebenzya. Russia has repeatedly rejected accusations of the West and Ukraine of «aggressive actions», stating that it does not threaten anyone and is not going to attack anyone, and statements about «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to deploy more military equipment NATO 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.
