"The Russian military detachments are in their usual location in Russian territory. The troops are 300km from the border, is that close?" asked the Russian ambassador,

Yuri Korchagin

, in Madrid today , who assures that Russia "does not is rearming" nor does it have "the intention of going to war".

Shortly before, in a brief statement read to the media, Korchagin stated that the build-up of troops on the border is "fake news."

For the veteran diplomat, with a 45-year professional career, the only worry is the "strengthening of NATO's infrastructure and strength on Russia's borders."

Yesterday, Washington announced that it will deploy "in the next few days"

3,000 soldiers

in Romania, Poland and Germany to strengthen the defenses of its allies against a possible attack on Ukraine.

An announcement that came to respond to reports about the

tens of thousands of Russian troops

concentrated on the borders of Ukraine

"Those who supply weapons and send troops are not us. NATO troops are in Ukraine," the diplomat insisted, warning that there is "a kind of hoax that is inflated with the intention of creating panic among all, the feeling that we are about to go to war, but that is not the case," the veteran diplomat reiterated on Thursday.

After receiving the written responses to their proposals from the US and NATO, and considering that they had no reaction on the "main" issues - not expanding NATO to the east or returning to the configuration of forces and infrastructure of the Alliance in 1997 , Korgachin has reported that Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has now sent a letter to his colleagues from NATO and OSCE countries to ask "if they remain faithful to their obligations to indivisible security. If not, let them respond directly".

In this regard, the Russian ambassador has said that they are still "waiting for a State-by-State response."


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