Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei during an interview at the Rossiya Segodnya MIA International Multimedia Press Center in Moscow MINSK, Feb 16The situation around Ukraine is artificially escalated by those forces that would not want Russia to play a role in ensuring regional and world security, said Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. «I believe that everything that is happening now around Ukraine is absolutely artificial and created forces that would not want Russia to really play such a decisive role, an important role in ensuring security in the region and in the world as a whole,» Makei said at a press conference. According to him, Western counterparties, by their statements, could try to minimize the value of Russia's proposals on security guarantees and make them worthless.Operation to Force Russia into War FailedKiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Moscow has repeatedly denied such accusations, saying that it does not threaten anyone and is not going to attack anyone, and statements about «Russian aggression» are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. The Russian Foreign Ministry previously noted that statements The West about «Russian aggression» and the possibility of helping Kiev defend itself against it is 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 worry anyone. 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. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday 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, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday. gave advice to Ukrainians to set an alarm clock so as not to oversleep the «invasion»
