U.S. Congress Building on Capitol Hill, WashingtonMOSCOW, Feb. 3The United States will not give up on the escalation of the situation around Ukraine, American weapons are being supplied to the country, and additional troops are being transferred to Europe, Crimean Senator Sergey Tsekov told RIA Novosti on Thursday. Earlier, White House press secretary Jen Psaki said that the US authorities no longer use the term «imminent» to characterize a possible Russian «invasion» of Ukraine.The US found the beneficiaries of the war in Ukraine»In itself, this statement is good. However, this may be a temporary phenomenon, in the US and the EU different officials make different statements,» Tsekov said. In addition, even in Ukraine itself they no longer agree with Washington's opinion about the imminent «threat» from Russia, the politician added. In his opinion, «the United States will not give up the escalation of tension in the situation around Ukraine.» Western weapons are still being supplied, US troops are being transferred to Europe. In his opinion, serious progress in this regard can only occur after the United States and its allies agree to Russia's initiatives on security guarantees. Moscow categorically denies the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine and constantly declares that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are being used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. According to Moscow, the Russian Federation is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion, this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone. 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 US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. The Russian Federation stated that the US and the West are hysterically developing the topic of threat and escalation in Ukraine.
