Pentagon spokesman John Kirby, during a briefing, accused Russia of continuing to build up its troops near the Ukrainian border. It is reported by TASS…
“We continue to see movement, we continue to see an increase in their forces,” said a US Department of Defense spokesman. He clarified that this is allegedly a “combined character” units that “continue to assemble on, or not on, but near the Ukrainian border,” for which Washington “continues to watch with great concern.”
The Pentagon spokesman added that the US “continues to urge Russia to be more transparent about what it is doing, what its intentions are.”
Earlier, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) of Russia, Maria Zakharova, said that nothing happened on the border with Ukraine, the “redeployments and maneuvers” of Russian troops were carried out on Russian territory. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov also said that Russia has not prepared, is not preparing and will not prepare any offensives on anyone.
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