OSCE banners in ViennaVIENNA, Feb 15, Margarita Kostiv. Russia does not lead any unusual military activity, will not participate in OSCE consultations at the request of Ukraine, Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the talks in Vienna on military security and arms control, told RIA Novosti.
"We sent a reply to the Ukrainian delegation and the Polish chairmanship that we would not participate in consultations at their request. Russia is not conducting any unusual military activity", Gavrilov said.
The consultations requested by Kiev on the Vienna Document in the OSCE are scheduled for 17.00 Moscow time on Tuesday, RIA Novosti was informed earlier in the mission of Poland chairing the organization. Earlier, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said that the Ukrainian authorities were convening a meeting with the Russian Federation and other member states of the Vienna Document in connection with the fact that Russia did not respond to a request from Kiev regarding the provision of information on military activities. RF allegedly 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 an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey 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 information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. «Polish journalists