
Kremlin accuses US of stoking 'hysteria' over Ukraine, as UN Security Council prepares to meet
CNN
Russia has accused Washington of stoking "hysteria" over the crisis on the Ukrainian border, as the United Nations Security Council is due to discuss the simmering tensions later on Monday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that Washington and US outlets have played up fears of a Russian invasion.
"To our dismay, American media have lately been publishing a very large amount of unverified, distorted and deliberately deceitful information about what's happening in Ukraine and around it," Peskov said Monday.

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