Wednesday, 22 December 2021 (YJC)_ A Pentagon spokesman denied the allegations in a statement issued Friday stating "Similar, baseless allegations concerning Russia's foreign policy have been made more than once.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby claimed:
Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu's statement that US private military companies based in the Donetsk region of Ukraine are preparing to carry out a provocative chemical attack in eastern Ukraine is "false."
"Kirby said:
The statements made by Shoigu are completely false. When asked again how he was aware of the issue, Kirby repeated:
They are incorrect.
Earlier on Tuesday, Sergei Shoigu announced that containers carrying unidentified chemicals had been transported to the cities of Audioka and Krasny Liman for provocation.
According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, about 120 employees of private US military companies are training Ukrainian special forces in the Donetsk region.
All this while tensions have risen in recent weeks in Eastern Europe, and especially in Ukraine, between Russia and the West, led by the United States; Where the West accuses Russia of campaigning to occupy Ukraine. Moscow, meanwhile, denies the allegations, saying that the deployment of NATO weapons and infrastructure near Russia's western borders in Eastern Europe and US actions in the region are causing all the current tensions.
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