Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander SchallenbergVIENNA, Feb. 7 Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said that still believes in a diplomatic settlement of the situation in Ukraine. The Foreign Ministers of the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Austria are paying a working visit to Ukraine on February 7-8. The Austrian minister stressed that for the first time in many years a situation with a “risk of military confrontation” has arisen in Europe. “I, perhaps because I am the Minister of Foreign Affairs, still believe in the possibilities of diplomacy, they have not yet ended. that diplomatic channels are still working, we must use these opportunities,» Shallenberg said at a press conference following his visit to the Donbass. Moscow categorically denies the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine and constantly states that they are not threatening anyone, but everyone 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. Kiev was reminded of debts
