Dmitriy Polyansky, Russia's first deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, declared that US and British intelligence assessments about Ukraine could not be trusted, because they had made many grave mistakes in the run-up to the US-led invasion of Iraq.

"We do not trust the American and British intelligence. They have failed us. They have failed the entire world in several events. It is enough to remember the issue of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," Polyansky said in an interview with the American "Sky News" network published today, Sunday.

"We don't trust the US and British intelligence, they have let us down, the whole world, on many occasions. Enough to remember the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq," says the Russian ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyanskiy. Phillips: https://t.co/0ynewTy38G pic.twitter.com/eLratrBEnC

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Earlier, the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, Ambassador Vasily Nebenzia, accused the United States of launching a disinformation campaign, and said that it is an American policy, as happened in this council when the representative of the United States began showing pictures of trucks in Iraq, stressing that they were carrying weapons of mass destruction, and then it turned out to be unreliable. Those assertions, and look what happened in Iraq where they invaded and destroyed it.

He said that the United States was the one that waged many wars in which hundreds of thousands were killed in more than one country.

The late US Secretary of State Colin Powell had defended the war in Iraq and made a lengthy speech to the UN Security Council on February 5, 2003 about his country's obtaining conclusive evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction, arguments that were behind the justification of the invasion of the country.

American moves

Today, Sunday, US President Joe Biden is scheduled to supervise an emergency meeting of the National Security Council that will discuss intelligence information indicating a massive Russian attack on Ukraine. While Moscow denied the validity of this information,

Hours before the US National Security Council meeting, US Vice President Kamala Harris said on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference in Germany that there is a belief that Russian President Vladimir Putin has actually ordered the start of a massive attack on Ukraine.

Harris added that Ukraine is surrounded by Russian forces, and that its President Volodymyr Zelensky does not stand alone, noting that Washington will re-evaluate the crisis through what will be nominated in the coming days.

She also said that there is talk of a war in Europe, explaining that her country is taking specific and appropriate steps to mitigate the economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine if it occurs.

The United States and Western countries accuse Russia of preparing a military attack on Ukraine, stressing that "this invasion can happen at any time," which Moscow has denied on several occasions;

Considering that the accusations are a pretext to increase NATO's military presence near its borders.