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NATO accuses Russia of planning the invasion of Ukraine by the beginning of 2022. The news was released in early December by the Washington Post. WP claims to have obtained sensitive information from US intelligence sources. Writing about the hypothesis of an imminent Russian aggression against Ukraine, WP wrote of 175 thousand Russian soldiers ready to attack Kiev, explaining immediately afterwards that it is only a potential deployment. According to US intelligence sources, WP says that: “There is a level of preparedness and equipment that would allow the war to be supported for a week to ten days. And, in the rear, reinforcements are ready for a month of operations”. “Satellite images show the logistical supply lines for the front already in motion
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova denies the American version. The hypothesis of a Russian invasion of Ukraine is “an imaginary threat”. Zakharova says that “it was NATO that came close to us. It is close to our borders that NATO’s military infrastructure is being built and that large-scale exercises are being conducted”.
To ease tensions in Ukraine, the key is related to the eventual accession of Ukraine into NATO. For Russian President Putin, an enlargement of the Atlantic Alliance to the east is a red line not to be crossed. US President Biden has made it known that the United States has no intention of intervening in Ukraine and is entrusting any military defense to its European partners. Brussels confirms the approach indicated by the US. EU foreign affairs representative Joseph Borrell, said “Europe will stand by Kiev in the event of an invasion”.
NATO’s activity at the borders of Russia also contributes to inflame tension.
The spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry, in an official statement, explained which exercises are being carried out by NATO on the edges of the Russian borders. Zakharova talks of “a military activity of the United States and NATO member states along the perimeter of Russia’s borders, including military flights and the dangerous maneuvers of military ships” that continues to grow.
From the foreign spokesperson, “The US military and its NATO allies have gone from attempts to test the strength of our border protection system to provocations against civilian aircraft.” Dangerous exercises that have jeopardized the safety of airspace and have endangerd human lives.
A protest note was sent to the United State’s Embassy in Moscow listing the incidents that jeopardized air safety in the skies over Russia between October and December.
The statement sent to US diplomatic services specifies that last December 3, a US Air Force CL-600 reconnaissance plane flew over the open waters of the Black Sea near the area of responsibility of the Russian air traffic services. The aircraft made a steep descent from an altitude of 11,000 m to an altitude of 9,200 m, crossing the route reserved for civil aircraft. The American plane risked collision with an Aeroflot passenger plane. Around the same time, a Maltese airliner flying from Sochi to Skopje narrowly escaped a collision. Also on the same day, Russian military aircraft had to intervene to escort a US Air Force’s RC-135 strategic reconnaissance plane over the Black Sea.
