Russia accused the United States on Thursday of ramping up tensions and ignoring Moscow's calls to ease a standoff over Ukraine, a day after Washington announced it would send nearly 3,000 extra troops to Poland and Romania.
NATO says Russia expected to have 30,000 troops in BelarusU.S. accuses Russia of designing invasion pretext plot
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov denounced the U.S. troop deployments on a conference call with reporters on Thursday. Washington and NATO have rejected Russian demands to bar Ukraine from joining NATO and withdraw allied forces and weapons systems from eastern Europe, while expressing a readiness to discuss arms control and confidence-building measures.Adding to the international concern that Russia might be gearing up for war, U.S. intelligence officials believe Moscow has formed a plan to fabricate a pretext for an invasion, said a senior official in the administration of President Joe Biden.
Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Belarus on Thursday to inspect Russian and Belarusian troops and was due to meet Belarusian leader Alexander Lukashenko. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday the West had ignored Russia's main concerns and accused the United States of trying to lure it into war, but he said Moscow was still interested in dialogue.PATH OF PEACE?
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