Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said that the allegations could be a ruse to cover up aggressive intentions from Ukrainian leadership.
The Kremlin rejected U.S. claims of a Russian troop buildup at the Ukrainian border, claiming the"absolute lies" from the U.S. is only a ruse on Monday.
The Russian Foreign Intelligence Service released a statement criticizing the U.S. State Department for spreading"absolute lies" about the purported Russian buildup near the Ukraine border. Ukraine has complained against Russia's tens of thousands of troops not far from the countries' borders earlier this month. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken also spoke with Ukraine's foreign minister this month, noting that Russia's repeated"playbook" was to build up forces near their borders and then invade,"claiming falsely that it was provoked."
He accused the Ukrainian military of increasingly frequent shootings across the tense line of contact in the east and added that Moscow is strongly worried about the U.S. and other"The number of provocations has been growing, and those provocations have been conducted using the weapons that NATO countries sent to Ukraine," Peskov said in a conference call with reporters."We are watching it with a grave concern.
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