Flags on the Bundestag building in Berlin, Germany. File photoBERLIN, Feb. 16 The meeting of the G7 foreign ministers on Ukraine is scheduled for February 19 and will take place on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, German Foreign Ministry spokesman Christopher Burger said. Earlier, the Kyodo agency, citing sources, informed that an emergency meeting of the heads of the diplomatic departments of the G7 member countries on Ukraine is being agreed on in February in Germany.Ukraine has requested an urgent meeting with the member countries of the Vienna Document»It is assumed that the Minister of Foreign Affairs (Germany Annalena Berbock — ed.) will hold a meeting of the German Foreign Ministers of the G7 on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. There will continue to discuss the crisis that arose due to accumulation of Russian troops near Ukraine,» Burger said at a briefing. When asked when the meeting would take place, the representative of the German Foreign Ministry noted that it was scheduled for Saturday, February 19. According to him, Burbock will also have other meetings, in particular, in the format of the four «Germany, USA, Great Britain, France», meetings with the UN Secretary General, the Israeli Defense Minister, the foreign ministers of Turkey and Iran. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine is vehemently denied in Moscow and constantly stated that no one is in danger, and all such statements are used as an excuse to place 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 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. The Kremlin said that the US and NATO information hysteria over Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. Statements that Russia is allegedly preparing provocations in Ukraine continue to come from the West, despite the return of Russian troops to their places of deployment after the exercises. On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. At a meeting with Putin, the head of the RF Ministry of Defense reported that «some of the exercises are coming to an end, some will be completed in the near future.» The Southern and Western military districts of the Russian Federation have begun returning troops to their places of deployment, Major General Igor Konashenkov, spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday. The withdrawal of the military to their places of deployment after the exercises is a common practice, there is no novelty, Presidential Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters earlier when asked if the withdrawal of troops means a de-escalation of the situation around Ukraine. At the same time, Peskov, answering a question from journalists about NATO statements about the absence of signs of de-escalation on the border with Ukraine, noted that NATO has problems in the system for assessing the situation. jpg» /> In Berlin, they said that Ukraine itself should decide the issue of joining NATO
