“We are afraid, we have already said that this pressure may be an attempt to hide our own preparations for a military solution to the Donbass problem,” Peskov was quoted as saying by TASS.

He stressed that such an alignment would be "complete madness."

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian president has repeatedly stated that Russia is not going to attack anyone.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said that Western media reports that Russia allegedly used the crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border to prepare for an "invasion" of Ukraine is a myth.

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.