zaterdag 12 februari 2022

Russia Blasts White House's Fresh Friday Ukraine Panic As "Distraction And Disinformation"

Both the US and Russian sides have confirmed that Biden and Putin are scheduled to hold an urgent phone call Saturday at the request of Washington. The White House earlier said it is "trying to stop a war". Below is Russia's full reaction to the afternoon's White House press briefing and flurry of statements from officials alleging Putin has made the decision to invade Ukraine within "days"
* Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova slammed reports Friday about Russia's "imminent invasion" of Ukraine as a "mass disinformation campaign" against Russia. "The White House hysteria is more revealing than ever. The Anglo-Saxons need a war. At any cost. Provocations, disinformation, and threats are favorite methods of solving their own problems," she wrote in a post on her Telegram channel. "Road roller of the American military-political machine is ready to go through people's lives. The whole world is watching how militarism, imperial ambitions denounce themselves. And a propaganda brigade chaired by Bloomberg serving all this"...


Zakharova said the position of Western officials "in conditions of a mass disinformation campaign against Russia" is worth a separate mention, avoiding giving a proper assessment of what is happening, the authorities validate their involvement in "fakes." "We can talk about the collusion of the authorities of Western countries and the media in order to escalate artificial tension around Ukraine by the massive and coordinated publication of false information in geopolitical interests, in particular, to distract attention from their own aggressive actions," she wrote....

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