Ukraine, Blinken: "Concerned by Russia's actions and rhetoric"

• Tension in the Black Sea due to the presence of NATO ships.

  Putin: "Serious challenge"

• Putin: "US-Russia relations at the lowest point in recent years"

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20 November 2021 The tension between the United States and Russia over the Ukraine question rises. US Secretary of State Antony John Blinken told reporters during a mission to Senegal: "The US is really worried about the activity on the border with Ukraine". The statement comes a few hours after an article in the New York Times according to which "US and British intelligence believe that Russian President Vladimir Putin is considering military action to take control of a larger part of Ukraine", "playing a role - continues the article - in several destabilizing crises at the same time". 

Thus the US Secretary of State: "We know the will to try to cite some illusory provocation from Ukraine or any other country and use it as an excuse for what Russia intends to do".

According to the US newspaper, "on Putin's strategic chessboard there are a series of destabilizing moves: in the stretch of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, where Moscow and the West are have been contending for influence for decades, the threat of a new military conflict is growing ". 

Yesterday a similar comment from Jen Psaki, spokesman for the White House: "We are worried about Russian military activities on the border and the White House is asking Moscow to ease tensions with Kiev". 

Only two days ago the intervention of Russian President Vladimir Putin who accused the West of "aggravating tensions in Ukraine by supplying weapons to Kiev and provocations with military exercises in the Black Sea" .

Putin accused Western bombers of flying 20 km from the Russian borders and warned against crossing a "red line".