Anatoly Antonov, Russia’s ambassador to the US, accused the US of escalating the Ukraine situation in order to drown out Russia’s proposals on security guarantees. “I would like first of all to draw the attention to repeated statements by the Russian leadership that we don’t have any aggressive plans toward the brotherly people of Ukraine,” the diplomat said on the embassy’s Facebook page. “The statements that Russia is responsible for the escalation can’t be treated as anything else but an attempt to apply pressure and devalue Russia’s proposals on security guarantees.”
“Nonetheless, the US continues to feed downright lies to the public,” he went on to say. “Especially baffling is the false narrative by US officials regarding the evacuation of citizens from the territory of the LPR and DPR.”
