Motherland Monument in KyivKIEV, Feb 16Reuters employee Sergei Karaziy explained the sound of the USSR anthem during the broadcast from Independence Square in Kiev, according to him, the agency only streams and cannot control the «sounds of the big city.» Earlier, Reuters launched a broadcast from Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence) in Kiev, on Wednesday night, during the broadcast, the anthem of the USSR sounded. what is happening in the frame, we, of course, cannot be held responsible. If an accident occurs in the frame, it is not our fault. Just as we cannot control the sounds of a big city. I do not exclude that on one of the neighboring balconies someone could turn on and anthem of Russia. There are many foreigners there. They can be different. The other day I heard someone twirling Verka Serduchka loudly. Well, people have such tastes,» Karaziy wrote on his Facebook page. that the stream from the Maidan was launched five days ago, because Ukraine is now the number one topic in the news, almost all TV channels include broadcasting from time to time in their news releases. «If we had expected potential bombings, we would have installed cameras in other places, there are many strategic objects in Kiev. But no. Just Maidan is important. And beautiful,» Karaziy added.
In the Czech Republic, they told how the United States fell into a trap because of UkraineEarlier, Western media reported that the United States allegedly notified its allies that the Russian Federation decided on February 16 to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov said that he sees no prerequisites for a large-scale invasion of the Russian Federation in the coming days. Moscow categorically denies the plans attributed to Russia to escalate the situation around Ukraine and constantly states that they are not threatening anyone, 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 stated 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, an official representative of the Russian Defense Ministry, told reporters on Tuesday. told why «hysteria» is being created around Ukraine
