Ukrainian servicemenBRUSSELS, Feb 16 Allegations of Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine turned out to be fake, and the real danger lies in the possibility of an attack by Kiev on the Donbass, Maximilian Krach, a German deputy from the Alternative for Germany party, told RIA Novosti.
" statements that Russia was about to attack, even mentioning Tuesday or Wednesday, February 16, as D"Day, were completely fake news spread by CNN and the American media and broadcast without question or verification in European media", said Krach.
According to the MEP, Kiev's attack on the self-proclaimed DPR and LPR could provoke a war. «In short, Ukraine's integration into NATO and the resumption of the war in Donbass are two dangerous scenarios that could mean war with Russia,» Krakh emphasized. Earlier, Politico citing informed sources, she wrote that US President Joe Biden, at a video conference with the leaders of Western countries, the European Union and NATO, called the date of Russia's «invasion» of Ukraine on February 16. The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov, commenting on these reports, said that it is difficult to take such publications seriously, and Russian President Vladimir Putin sometimes jokingly asks to know if the exact time of the start of the war is published anywhere. After that, the British tabloids Sun and Mirror, citing American intelligence data, wrote that, despite the statements of the Russian Ministry of Defense about the withdrawal of troops after the exercises, the “invasion of Ukraine” was allegedly scheduled for 4.00 Moscow time on Wednesday. The Sun tabloid claimed that Russia was allegedly preparing to launch a massive strike with the participation of 200,000 troops, using tanks, aircraft, missiles and ships. Peskov, commenting on the publications of a number of Western media about the Russian «invasion» of Ukraine in the morning, told RIA Novosti that Ukrainians should set alarms and see for themselves. Plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine in Moscow are categorically denied and constantly declare that no one threatened, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy 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. Allegations 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, the President of the Russian Federation 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, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday. questioned the veracity of reports of an «invasion» of Ukraine