With Russia announcing that its troops are pulling back following the completion of exercises near the border with Ukraine, Moscow has insisted that predictions it could be just moments away from ordering a full-blown invasion have been proven false.
In a fiery statement on Tuesday, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova poured scorn on weeks of reports and claims from US and European officials that Moscow’s armed forces could be just hours away from launching a strike against its neighbor.
“15 February 2022 will go down in history as the day Western war propaganda failed,” she wrote. According to her, the West has been “shamed and destroyed without firing a single shot.”
At the same time, Moscow’s Ministry of Defense announced that a number of Russian troops had finished their training exercises in Belarus, close to the Ukrainian border, and will begin the process of withdrawing.
Zakharova’s comments come after American business outlet Bloomberg reported on Saturday, citing unnamed officials, that an offensive against Ukraine could take place as early as Tuesday. The agency reported that a possible attack might include a provocation in the Donbass region or against Kiev.
The White House’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, told CNN over the weekend that “sources” and “gathered intelligence” suggested “major military action” could “begin any day now.” He said that this included the coming week before the end of the Olympic games.
Tensions on the shared border have escalated in recent months, with Western officials raising the alarm that Moscow’s troops could soon stage an invasion. The Kremlin has repeatedly insisted that it has no aggressive intentions and has accused English-language outlets of whipping up mass “hysteria.”
Amid fears of a potential incursion, Moscow has sought security guarantees that would limit the expansion of NATO closer to its borders and block Ukraine from joining its ranks. However, the bloc’s Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg has said that Russia has “no veto” on Kiev’s ambitions to secure membership.
On Monday, Russia’s top diplomat, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, said that his side had been disappointed by the response from NATO and the US, but there were still hopes of reaching a diplomatic solution. Speaking shortly after Zakharova on Tuesday, he claimed that Western reports of an imminent invasion amounted to “information terrorism.”
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My guess is this has been a US bluff from the get-go. Putin saw the Deep State was holding a weak hand and called it. Additionally, in losing the pot I believe the US had to concede that Ukraine will never gain admittance to NATO.
Wonder how much of this was just so information could be destroyed concerning the bidens.
Not many things in this world that are not cover for something more important. Look at the right hand folks, never mind the left hand, nothing to see there. Look at the right hand. RUSSIANS!!!
It was a clever diversion.
The sky is falling, the sky is falling; except when it isn’t.
It would seem that the US needed this war more than Russia, hence all the invasion hype.
I do not know if things will walk back or not, but I do know that the Russian leadership has gained immense credibility in the eyes of the world, while the US is looking like a panicked “Karen” , terrified of her own shadow.
Which is why I’m still concerned there may be further escalation; not so much from Russia, but from whatever the US has to do to “light this firecracker”.
Warmongers gonna warmonger. You can take that one to the bank.
I find it funny that we go to the south China sea and do “war games” all the time. If Russia does it on their borders, our scumbag leaders push for war. We need a 1776 baaaaad!
War doesn’t have to be kinetic and the Russians just won this round by making Biden, the State Department and the alphabet agencies look like retards. Apart from Biden looking like a pathetic war mongering pants-shitter, NATO has been exposed as the paper tiger that it actually is.
Did the stupid little liberal warmongers cry Wolf again?
It’s a sad day when I’m cheering on a foreign country’s leader over our own. Whatever you feel about the Kremlin, it’s clear he loves his country. That’s something we haven’t had in 30 years in this place with the exception of Trump.
Checkmate! Putin’s geopolitical skill has made Russia the number one superpower in the world.