Venezuela President Nicolas MaduroBUENOS AIRES, Feb 17 Russia can count on Venezuela's support in in the face of threats from NATO and the Western countries, said President Nicolas Maduro. what can count on the people and the government of Venezuela, a peaceful government. The diplomacy of the world will win, the grandiose triumph of Putin and Russia in these days of the international campaign of threats, because (Russia uses) diplomacy in defense of its interests,» Maduro added. The West accuses the Russian Federation of allegedly plans to escalate the situation around Ukraine. Moscow categorically denies this and constantly states that they are not threatening anyone, and all such statements are used as an excuse to deploy more NATO military equipment near Russian borders. As Russian Foreign Minister Sergey 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. According to the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, the information hysteria of the USA and NATO on Ukraine is generously framed by lies and fakes. embarrassed with the forecast about the war in Ukraine