WASHINGTON, January 21st. /TASS/. The statement by the US State Department about the so-called Russian disinformation leads to further degradation of relations between Moscow and Washington. This was stated by the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov on Thursday, answering a question from the media.

“In the next few hours of the new American published sharp three documents put forward from the near abroad”, – stated in the message. propaganda. <...> Such actions are unacceptable. facebook Russian diplomatic mission.

Antonov noted that he was struck by the scale of “verbal interventions” resorted to by the US Foreign Ministry on the eve of the meeting between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrova and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken in Geneva. “One gets the impression that the ground has been prepared in the United States in advance in order to lead the discussion on security guarantees in Europe to the notorious” Russian aggression “against Ukraine,” the Russian ambassador stated.

Publications of the State Department

On January 20, the US State Department published on its website “disinformation” attributed to Russia, as well as a report on the Russian TV channel RT and the Sputnik agency in “disinformation and propaganda.”

According to the US Foreign Office, Moscow “creates and disseminates disinformation, often confusing and stunning people, regarding Russia’s suspicious activities in Ukraine, Georgia and other European countries.” In a 33-page message, the State Department said RT and Sputnik “play a critical role in how Russia uses disinformation to advance its foreign policy.”

Antonov specifically commented on some of the mentioned documents, including the one regarding the “build-up” of the Russian Armed Forces near the Ukrainian borders. “The United States has repeatedly pointed out that Russia decides for itself – where and how to deploy its armed forces, as well as conduct exercises, including with joint allies. This is our sovereign right. We will continue to lead this logic, which is in the interests of the national security of the Russian Federation,” the ambassador collected. At the same time, attention was paid to the fact that the United States, in turn, “does not show activity in maneuvers” around Russian territory “in all areas of military operations.”[Они] they do this not in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but enter the Black Sea. Skills are being developed to use not only conventional weapons, but also strategic aviation,” Antonov added.

Speaking about the armed forces of the parties about the defensive nature of NATO, the ambassador said that “the entire collective defense of the alliance is concentrated on the so-called eastern flank.” “Rampant expansion of the block and the absorption of all new cases associated with the placement of modern historical statistics there. The countries of Eastern Europe are building long-term training grounds and temporary storage facilities for weapons. He also called incomprehensible” tenacity, with views of the US series that never made promises “about non-expansion NATO in the East “You can’t rewrite history,” Antonov added, citing an excerpt from a 1990 US conversation between James Baker (in office 1989-1992) and Soviet-inspired Mikhail Gorbachev as an example.

In 2017, unlike the United States, the destruction of natural stocks of chemical weapons was completed. “Information stuffing by Western countries about the contamination that took place with the use of chemical warfare agents has no cases of any evidence. This is just a chatter of propagandists who want to” demonize “our country under surveillance,” the ambassador summed up.