
Ukrainian soldier in Donetsk regionANKARA, Feb 12 Russian and Belarusian sources contacted the Turkish side, denied to Ankara the information about the allegedly impending «invasion» of Russia into Ukraine, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said. — Ed.), — the Anadolu agency quoted Cavusoglu as saying. The West accuses the Russian Federation of alleged plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly states that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as a pretext 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 exclude that then the hysteria around Ukraine, promoted 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.

