“Instead of pausing and focusing on answers to the substantive questions posed in the Russian documents, the White House and its Western allies have launched an extremely toxic information and propaganda campaign that represents our country as an “aggressor”, “enemy of civilized Europe” and a “threat” international stability," the message on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry says.
The publication of the State Department on the eve of the talks between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken “cannot be called anything other than an outright provocation,” the department concluded.
The US State Department previously published material about alleged Russian disinformation on the situation around Ukraine.
As the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova noted, the document contains "passages of simply inhuman lies."
On January 21, Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov said that the United States wants to replace the discussion about security guarantees in Europe with Russia's "aggression" against Ukraine.