Ambassador to the United States Antonov: Russia considers Donbass part of Ukraine

“We are not trying to seize any territories of other countries.

I would like to confirm that Donbass and Luhansk are part of Ukraine,” he said on the CBS television channel.

Antonov also said that Russia had no plans to "invade" Ukraine.

Earlier, the press secretary of the Russian leader, Dmitry Peskov, said that Russia had never attacked anyone first and did not even want to pronounce the word “war”.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said that Russia does not want war.

The Kremlin said that a number of Western countries and organizations, including NATO, have recently shown undisguised informational aggression against Russia.