Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya at a meeting of the UN Security Council for Ukraine at the UN Headquarters in New YorkMOSCOW, 2 Feb. The verbal skirmish that took place between the permanent representatives of Russia and the United States to the UN Vasily Nebenza and Linda Thomas-Greenfield during the meeting of the Security Council on the Ukrainian crisis became the most acute in recent years, The Washington Post writes. The Russian diplomat, according to the publication, was extremely outraged the words of the American colleague that Moscow is trying to present Ukraine and the West as aggressors and thus get a pretext for «invasion». Nebenzya said that Washington itself provokes the escalation through its false accusations. «You are waiting for this to happen, as if you want your words to become reality,» the newspaper quotes him as saying. authorities in the «pure Nazi» countries bordering Russia, as well as in «glorifying those who fought on the side of Hitler».Putin called Ukraine a tool to contain Russia in the hands of the United States «Provocation» The meeting of the UN Security Council on Ukraine was held on Monday. Washington, on whose initiative it was convened, wanted to discuss Moscow's alleged «threatening behavior» towards Ukraine and the «build-up» of the Russian military presence on the border. Russia considered such a meeting an American PR stunt beforehand. The event was reduced to an unsubstantiated accusation of the country by the West. Nebenzya called the meeting of the UN Security Council on the situation around Ukraine a provocation. At a later briefing, he noted that there was a feeling that the United States was not interested in resolving the Ukrainian crisis. At the same time, the permanent representative pointed out that Moscow «encourages the United States to influence its Ukrainian wards, but the American side's understanding of the Minsk agreements and the situation around Ukraine is probably even smaller and more distorted than the understanding of colleagues in the Normandy format.»
The West is trying to forget about the principle of indivisibility of security, Lavrov saidThe British supported RussiaReaders of the British newspaper The Times supported the position of Russia's Permanent Representative to the UN Vasily Nebenzi in a dispute with his US colleague Linda Thomas-Greenfield at a meeting of the Security Council on the Ukrainian crisis. Thus, one of the commentators recalled that NATO surrounded Russia with its bases. Another user, in turn, recalled the threats of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to «return» Crimea by force and deploy a significant part of the armed forces on the border with the Donbass republics.
NATO deceived Russia in the promise not to move east, Putin saidUkrainian issueIn recent months, relations between Russia and the West have become even more tense, the situation around Ukraine has worsened. Washington and Brussels accuse Moscow of preparing an «invasion», declaring that Russian troops are being pulled up to the border with a neighboring state. Against this background, the North Atlantic Alliance is strengthening its presence in Eastern Europe. Official Kiev and Western states have recently expressed concern about the alleged increase in «aggressive actions» by Russia near the borders of Ukraine. Presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that Russia is moving troops within its territory and at its own discretion. According to him, this does not threaten anyone and should not worry anyone.
