State Duma indicates the point of no return in the conflict with Ukraine
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Olga Dvoryanova
First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs and Chairman of the Board of the Russkiy Mir Foundation Vyacheslav Nikonov has stated that the United States is conducting an "anti-Russian month" escalating the situation on the Ukrainian border and pushing NATO infrastructure closer to Russia in the process.
Along with its claims that Russia is allegedly preparing an "invasion" of Ukrainian territory, the U.S. makes attempts to damage relations between Moscow and Kiev even more and to push the NATO infrastructure closer to the Russian borders. This is what First Deputy Chairman of the Duma International Affairs Committee Vyacheslav Nikonov told the NSN Radio Talks Telegram channel.
“The campaign around the Russian threat, including the current anti-Russian month, is linked to NATO's desire to bring its infrastructure closer to our borders, to further damage relations between Russia and Ukraine, to strengthen Atlantic ties in the run-up to the NATO ministerial summit (meeting of foreign ministers of NATO countries, acc. to NNS), then to the NATO summit, to create a good agenda for the democracy summit which the US is holding this week," said the deputy of the Russian parliament.
Earlier, the Financial Times reported, citing its sources, that Washington had been forced to disclose intelligence data which allegedly indicated that "the Kremlin might soon send its troops to Ukraine". The paper noted that the USA was thus trying to convince the EU countries of Russia's aggressive intentions as they had not believed it.
“Since 1945, when the Cold War began, the United States has constantly accused the Russian Federation of aggressive intentions. This point is used to move its military infrastructure toward our country, to make more challenges in relations with our neighbors, to strengthen its system of alliances, to undermine our system. This policy has remained unchanged. They don't even have to accept Ukraine into NATO in order to introduce their troops into Ukraine," Nikonov pointed out.
The parliamentarian stressed that Russia could launch military activities against Ukraine only in case of an attack on its territory.
“It is irresponsible to talk about it now. But the point of no return will be an attack on Russia," said Nikonov.
Russia has repeatedly denied information about an alleged invasion of Ukraine. Speaking at VTB Capital Investment Forum "RUSSIA CALLING!" last week, President Vladimir Putin noted that the possibility of Russian troops entering Ukraine had been talked about at the beginning of the year, but it was still not happening. According to him, the main task is to "develop relations," so it is necessary "to take into account the interests of all participants of international relations" for this purpose. In turn, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also assured that Moscow was not going to attack anyone, and called the hysteria stirred up in the Western media unacceptable.
According to the Financial Times, U.S. President Joe Biden intends to "warn" his Russian counterpart against "invasion" during his conversation with Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.