Russia accuses US of lusting for war in Ukraine

While the United States has warned that Russia could strike Ukraine at any moment, Moscow is calm and not beating the drums of war, with pundits and ordinary people alike not expecting President Vladimir Putin to launch an attack on its former Soviet neighbour.

The Kremlin has dismissed US warnings of an imminent attack as "hysteria" and "absurdity," and many Russians believe Washington is deliberately stoking panic and stoking tensions to stoke conflict for domestic reasons.

Putin's angry rhetoric about NATO's plans to expand into Russia's "doorstep" and his refusal to listen to Moscow's concerns has touched the hearts of the public, capitalizing on the West's sense of betrayal after the end of the Cold War and widespread suspicion of Western designs.

Speaking to reporters after US President Joe Biden's phone call with Putin on Saturday, Kremlin foreign affairs adviser Yuri Ushakov lamented what he described as US "hysteria" about the alleged imminent invasion, saying the situation had "reached an unbearable point". bearable." Maybe."
Panicking, the US said Russia had concentrated more than 130,000 troops in eastern, northern and southern Ukraine and had the weapons needed to launch an attack at any time. This hysteria had made a scene in the pro-Western media to attract sympathy. Russian officials angrily denied plans to invade Ukraine and dismissed Western concerns about a buildup near the country, arguing that Moscow was free to deploy its troops wherever it liked in the country. its national territory.

"We don't understand why they are spreading false information about Russia's intentions," Ushakov said of the US warning of an imminent attack.

In 2014, Russia annexed Ukraine's Crimean Peninsula after the overthrow of the president of the Moscow-friendly country and lent its support after a separatist uprising in Ukraine's eastern industrial heartland, Donbass, in which more than 14,000 people died in fighting.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has taken a more aggressive tone, denouncing Washington's warnings about an imminent Russian attack on Ukraine as "war propaganda" by the US and some of its allies.
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