{"id":8375,"date":"2022-02-07T13:57:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:57:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/?p=8375"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:57:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T11:57:31","slug":"ukraine-downplays-possible-russian-invasion-urges-people-to-ignore-us-apocalyptic-predictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ir-ia.com\/news\/ukraine-downplays-possible-russian-invasion-urges-people-to-ignore-us-apocalyptic-predictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine downplays possible Russian invasion, urges people to ignore US “apocalyptic predictions”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba downplayed a possible Russian invasion on February 6, urged people not to believe \u201capocalyptic predictions\u201d after American officials warned that Russia plans to launch an operation to capture Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Foreign Minister Kuleba posted on his Twitter that “Do not believe the apocalyptic predictions. Different capitals have different scenarios, but Ukraine is ready for any development.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cToday, Ukraine has a strong army, unprecedented international support, and Ukrainians\u2019 faith in their country. The enemy should be afraid of us, not us of them,\u201d Kuleba added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ukraine\u2019s presidency adviser Mykhailo Podolyak also stated that the chances of finding a diplomatic solution to the crisis remained \u201csubstantially higher than the threat of further escalation\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 5, two U.S. administration senior officials warned that Russia may launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine by mid-February in an attempt to capture the capital Kyiv, and topple the democratically elected President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unnamed U.S. officials also claimed that Russia had reached about 70 percent of the military capability it requires to invade Ukraine and plans to send additional battalion tactical groups to the border areas. The U.S. officials stated that they did not believe that Russian President Putin had made the final decision to invade Ukraine, but if Russia goes ahead with its invasion plan there would be about 25,000 Ukrainian soldiers casualties and up to 50,000 civilian deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Russian soldier is seen de-mining a site during a military drill (Image Credit: Russian Defence Ministry Press Service via AP)<\/sup><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

According to U.S. sources, Russia is planning an operation by using fake drone strikes on the Donbas region or on Russian territory, while Russian state TV would broadcast the \u201cfalse flags operations” and blame Ukraine for genocide against Russian-speaking people. Russia would then use the fake videos to justify an attack on Ukraine or have separatist forces in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine to invite a Russian intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. State Department spokesperson Ned Price highlighted that the United States publicized information about Moscow’s plan to expose “Russia’s destabilizing actions towards Ukraine and dissuade Russia from continuing this dangerous campaign and ultimately launching a military attack.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Russian diplomat Dmitry Polyanskiy refuted such claims and termed it as “another masterpiece of U.S. propaganda war.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Polyanskiy said in a message on Twitter: “Unnamed officials, undisclosed sources, no evidence. And as we all saw, if you openly question such fakes you won\u2019t get answers and will be labeled Russian apologist.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moscow repeatedly claims that it has no plans to attack Kyiv and instead put forward proposals to defuse tensions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that “The well-known psychedelic phobias by Western media about the \u2018Russian aggression against Ukraine\u2019 are under development in the forthcoming composition. However, time marches on and Russia is not attacking Ukraine. The calculation by the US who ordered this \u2018tune\u2019 and the British who joined the bandwagon is clear; they cooked up \u2018the Russian threat\u2019 themselves, they braced themselves for a \u2018heroic fight\u2019 against it, in order to commit a provocation and loudly declare their \u2018victory\u2019,” the spokeswoman noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Here you\u2019ve got both an opportunity to divert attention away from their own political crises and a chance to pour billions into arming \u2018immature democracies,\u2019 and a way of reviving the image of the \u2018invincible\u2019 after the Afghan fiasco,” she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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