Russian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Maria Zakharova during a briefing in Moscow. Archival photoROME, Feb. 15 Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the Rete4 TV channel that only «crazy» people lacking morality can declare Russia's intention to attack Ukraine.
" When in the last two months we read the Western media, hear statements from the White House and from Downing Street that Russia intends to attack (on Ukraine), we are aware that only crazy, crazy, without morals can say this. and those involved in falsification", said Zakharova.
She stressed that the United States, speaking about Russia's alleged readiness for aggression, «does not want to hear that we are talking about the movement of troops inside Russian territory.» «Everything that is happening now has already happened to the West,» the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry said, drawing parallels with the pretext for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Russian gas supplies, their legal and reputational guarantees, she noted, irritate the United States, because that we are talking about a huge market share that they want to get their hands on. «They are inventing situations around Ukraine, … they are trying to put a spoke in the wheels of the Nord Stream 2 project in order to convince Germany to abandon it and conquer this market themselves and start supplying their resources,» said the representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Zakharova called the true enemy of Ukraine As Zakharova emphasized, Italy in such a situation can use the right of veto in Europe for the sake of relations with Russia. «Italy, when there is a vote on sanctions, it can veto. Italy is a member of NATO, it has a vote. According to the documents, all the votes of NATO members have the same weight. And at some point you can say: stop it. You want peace , you want gas, you want mutual investment, you want Russian tourists to come to Italy,” she told an Italian journalist. Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and does not intend to attack anyone, and claims of «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to place more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously noted that Western statements about «Russian aggression» and the possibility of helping Kiev defend itself against it are both ridiculous and dangerous. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion. According to him, this does not threaten anyone and should not bother anyone.