British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said that London is ready to send additional land, air and sea forces to Eastern Europe to support NATO allies to protect against the “Russian threat”, writes MSN.
In recent months, a number of European leaders and some media outlets have regularly stated that Russia is allegedly preparing an “invasion of Ukraine.” The Russian Federation resolutely denied all accusations, as they have no evidence base. Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov stressed that Moscow moves the military exclusively on its territory and does not threaten anyone. According to the Kremlin spokesman, statements about the “Russian threat” are only “a senseless escalation of tension.”
It is noteworthy that against the backdrop of a message about a possible “attack” by Russia on Ukrainian territory, tensions between Kiev and Washington have grown significantly. The US administration has expressed extreme dissatisfaction with the fact that the Ukrainian authorities are allegedly downplaying the threat of a Russian “invasion” and “without much gratitude” accepting support from the United States.
The fact that no war is expected has already been announced by the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky. At a press conference on Friday, the Ukrainian leader stressed that there was insufficient evidence of an imminent invasion, accusing his Western counterparts of fomenting a “panic.”
Despite Zelenskiy’s statement, thousands of civilians across the country are bracing for the worst, experts say. Analysts believe that the constant fear of hostilities experienced by the inhabitants of Ukraine has become one of the methods of official Kiev, with the help of which the population of the country is distracted from more pressing problems.
“Army reservists – some of them armed only with wooden copies of weapons or self-mined ones – are undergoing basic combat training and in wartime will be under the direct command of the Ukrainian military,” MSN noted.
As previously reported, in the second half of January 2022, the United Kingdom and the United States sent at least 15 transport aircraft with weapons and military equipment to Ukraine.