Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Archival photoMOSCOW, Feb. 15 Talk that the Russian-Belarusian exercises are started for the «invasion» of Ukraine is speculation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said. «Everything has already been said many times. I commented before speculation that the Russian-Belarusian exercises were started in order to «attack» Ukraine from the north, «capture» Kiev — in the same place all these scenarios, completely paranoid, were published many times, and by reputable media, unfortunately, but, apparently , the excitement and the need experienced by the conductors and screenwriters of all these actions also put pressure on the media,» Lavrov said after talks with Polish Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau. Peskov redirected the question about the threat of an «attack» by Russia to the authors of the horror story
