According to Stefanutsa, "about 130,000 Russian troops are concentrated on the eastern border of Ukraine, ready to threaten the sovereignty of a neighboring state."
“As a result, this may lead to the arrival of a large number of Ukrainian refugees in the EU,” the MEP believes.
He asked what measures the relevant departments intend to take so that the European Union "is not taken by surprise or unsettled" by a potential refugee crisis.
“How is the EU preparing for such a scenario?
In particular, will the European Commission support the development of a migration plan, according to which all Ukrainians arriving in EU member states will be granted the status of military refugees?”
he asked among other things.
Earlier, the US agency Bloomberg, citing unnamed officials, reported that Russia “may attack Ukraine” on February 15.
The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, called such stuffing information terrorism.
In addition, the minister considers Western speculations about Russian-Belarusian military exercises as a tool for "invading" Ukraine "paranoid".
On February 15, it also became known that the units of the Southern Military District began to return to their permanent deployment points after completing tasks as part of exercises at the training grounds of the Crimean Peninsula.