President of the Czech Republic Milos ZemanPRAGUE, Feb. decade, a major embarrassment, this time with a forecast of the outbreak of war in Ukraine, said Czech President Milos Zeman in an interview published on Thursday morning by the online publication Idnes.
"I said a few days ago that, in my opinion, there would be no war (in Ukraine). Because the Russians are not crazy enough to embark on an operation that would do them more harm than good", Zeman said.
According to the President of the Czech Republic, this is the third embarrassment of Americans in recent decades. The first, he noted, was in Iraq, where the US has never been able to find weapons of mass destruction. Washington made the second embarrassment in Afghanistan, when it claimed that the Taliban * would never reach Kabul. «Well, now the third one (in Ukraine),» Zeman noted. Western media have set the date and even the time several times over the past month » Russian invasion of Ukraine. The British newspaper The Sun, referring to the US intelligence services, stated that the attack of Russian troops would begin on February 16 at three in the morning. White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki argued that the «invasion» could begin «between mid-January and mid-February.» The West accuses Russia of escalating the situation around Ukraine. The Kremlin and the Russian Foreign Ministry deny all accusations, emphasizing that Russia does not participate in the intra-Ukrainian conflict and does not violate any agreements, unlike Kiev, which refuses to comply with the Minsk agreements. * The organization is under UN sanctions for terrorist activities.
Britain accused Russia of building up troops on the border with Ukraine