On the air of the YouTube channel "Soloviev live", the Russian diplomat called the reports about the allegedly preparing Moscow attack on Ukraine hysteria, through which Kiev is trying to justify the failures of the current president.
"We are open here and constantly talk in the media, and we say to political scientists and the administration (USA -
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): Russia is not going to attack anyone," Antonov emphasized.
On November 12, Bloomberg reported that the United States expressed concerns to the EU authorities that Moscow might consider the possibility of an "invasion" of Ukraine.
Konstantin Gavrilov, head of the Russian delegation at the Vienna talks on military security and arms control, said earlier on the Russia 24 TV channel that there was not a single evidence of the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine.
The press secretary of the Russian president, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia was not going to attack anyone.