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“Russia will not attack Ukraine and is not harboring “aggressive” plans, a Kremlin spokesman said Tuesday while also not ruling out military action following what Moscow considers fearsome threats from Kyiv.
“Russia is not going to attack anyone,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters Tuesday morning, according to a translation of his remarks. “It’s not like that.”
He added, however, that Russia remains “deeply concerned about provocative actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the line of contact” as well as “preparations for a possible military solution to the Donbas problem.”
So Putin’s spokesman was lying.
“U.S. leaders recently warned of the kind of diversionary tactics Peskov appeared to employ on Tuesday as a pretext to justify military intervention in Ukraine.
“We don't know what President Putin's intentions are. But we do know what's happened in the past. We know the playbook of trying to cite some illusory provocation from Ukraine or any other country and using that as an excuse for what Russia plans to do all along,” Secretary of State Antoy Blinken said on Saturday while on a trip to Dakar, Senegal. He said the U.S. and its partners had “real concerns about Russia’s unusual military activity.”
And the US called him on it.
So who was correct?
“Russia is not going to attack anyone,” Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, told reporters Tuesday morning, according to a translation of his remarks. “It’s not like that.”
He added, however, that Russia remains “deeply concerned about provocative actions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the line of contact” as well as “preparations for a possible military solution to the Donbas problem.”
So Putin’s spokesman was lying.
“U.S. leaders recently warned of the kind of diversionary tactics Peskov appeared to employ on Tuesday as a pretext to justify military intervention in Ukraine.
“We don't know what President Putin's intentions are. But we do know what's happened in the past. We know the playbook of trying to cite some illusory provocation from Ukraine or any other country and using that as an excuse for what Russia plans to do all along,” Secretary of State Antoy Blinken said on Saturday while on a trip to Dakar, Senegal. He said the U.S. and its partners had “real concerns about Russia’s unusual military activity.”
And the US called him on it.
So who was correct?