“We don’t need this panic,” said Zelensky, Ukraine’s prime minister.
the ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky, asked this Friday to the Western countries that avoid fomenting “panic” against the concentration of Russian troops on the border with his country.
“We don’t need this panic”Zelensky declared at a press conference with foreign media, pointing out that further damage to Ukraine’s economy must be avoided.
“The probability of attack exists, it has not disappeared and it was not less serious in 2021”, but “we do not see any escalation greater than what already existed” last year, Zelensky stressed..
Instead, if one listens to the international media and “even respected heads of state”, it would seem “that we already have a war” throughout the country, “that there are troops advancing on the roads. But that is not the case,” he added.
“The biggest risk for Ukraine” is “the destabilization of the internal situation”, rather than the threat of a Russian invasion, Zelensky insisted.
“This panic, how much is it going to cost our country?” he asked..
The West has been accusing Russia for weeks of having concentrated some 100,000 soldiers on the border with Ukraine in the face of an eventual invasion of its neighbor, and has threatened Moscow with harsh sanctions if it goes on the offensive.
“Everything indicates” that Russian President Vladimir Putin “will use military force at some point, perhaps between now and mid-February,” US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman said on Wednesday.
Several Western embassies, including those of the United States and Canada, announced that they have recalled some of their staff in Ukraine, due to the threat of a Russian invasion.
In addition, eastern Ukraine has been the scene of a war with pro-Russian separatists since 2014, a conflict that broke out shortly after Russia annexed Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula and has left more than 13,000 dead. The West accuses Moscow of supporting the separatists, but the Kremlin denies this. (I)
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