'False': Kremlin refutes US letter claiming Russia has a list of Ukrainians to be killed.
The US sent a letter to the UN claiming that Russia has a list of Ukrainian targets to kill. The Russian government said this was "absolute fiction."
Sputnik - On Monday (21), the US sent a letter to the United Nations saying that Moscow had prepared a list of Ukrainians who should be assassinated or captured in the event of an invasion of Ukrainian territory.
The letter, signed by the US ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Bathsheba Nell Crocker, and sent to the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, highlights that Russia has compiled a so-called "target list" of Ukrainians to be "killed or sent to camps" in the event of an "incursion."
"We also have reliable information that Russian forces would use lethal measures to disperse peaceful protests or in some way counterattack the peaceful resistance of civilian populations," the document says.
Moscow today (21) refuted the US accusations, through Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who claimed that the information is false.
"That's a lie. That's absolute fiction, no such list exists, it's false," Peskov told reporters.
Moscow has repeatedly denied any intention to attack Ukraine, but is watching its red lines being crossed by NATO's eastward expansion and the US campaign claiming an "imminent" invasion.
Despite having stopped using the word "imminent" earlier this month to characterize the alleged Russian invasion, the White House continues to push propaganda suggesting an occupation is about to happen, and is not taking Russian requests for security guarantees seriously.
In the face of the severe crisis, yesterday (20), the President of France, Emmanuel Macron, spoke by telephone with the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, for 105 minutes and it was agreed to create a summit in Paris with the presence of the US President, Joe Biden, to discuss the situation in Ukraine.
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