US Representative to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield UN Feb 16US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Russia «may decide not to invade» Ukraine. they may decide not to invade, but I know they will continue to threaten Ukraine's security and sovereignty unless we find a way to address the security problems they claim are in the region,» Thomas-Greenfield told Al Jazeera. And therefore, according to her, the United States will continue to persuade Russia to a diplomatic solution. Earlier, the first deputy representative of the Russian Federation to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, advised the participants in the hysteria about the allegedly upcoming «invasion» of the Russian Federation to see a doctor to help them recover from paranoia. Earlier, the newspaper Politico, citing informed sources, 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 la. 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 referring to US intelligence data, they 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.Snowden questioned the authenticity of reports about the «invasion» of UkraineThe Kremlin treated with irony the reports of a number of Western media about the Russian «invasion» of Ukraine in the morning, Peskov, commenting on these publications by RIA Novosti, suggested that Ukrainians set alarms and see for themselves. escalation of the situation around Ukraine in Moscow is categorically denied and constantly states 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. 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. gave Ukraine carte blanche to seize the Donbass, said the representative of Kiev
