After months of tension in Eastern Europe, with Russian troops stationed on Ukraine’s border and Western powers accused President Vladimir Putin of wanting to invade the neighboring country, the report entitled “Russia invades Ukraine” finally saw the light of day in the press. International.
Detail: this, at least until now, has not happened, and the publication was the result of a mistake by Bloomberg News, which has even apologized. On Friday (4), the American vehicle released a note in which it recognizes the mistake, claims to have removed the content and announces an investigation to understand the cause of the problem.
The company’s own statement, however, seems to clarify the reason: “We prepared headlines for different scenarios, and the headline ‘Russia invades Ukraine’ was inadvertently published on our website. We deeply regret the error.” In other words, a recurring practice in journalism, of preparing texts for publication as soon as an event with considerable chances of happening takes place, became a laughing stock on social networks and even provoked criticism from the Russian government.
On Saturday (5), Kremlin spokesman Dmitri Peskov dismissed the incident as a provocation – “There is no need to exaggerate what happened”, but saw the error as a demonstration of how dangerous the tension around the world is. of Ukraine, which he says is caused by the West.
“It was hardly a provocation,” he told Russian state news agency Tass, adding that Bloomberg News apologized for the mistake. “However, this situation makes clear how dangerous these tensions are, which have been triggered by aggressive daily statements that we continue to hear from Washington, European capitals and London. borders and daily activities to supply Ukraine with weapons, which lead to these tensions, and any spark is dangerous in the midst of tensions,” Peskov said.
The crisis in Eastern Europe was triggered after the Kremlin mobilized 100,000 to 175,000 troops in areas close to the borders with Ukraine. The US and allies of NATO, the western military alliance, accuse Putin of preparing an invasion of the neighboring country, as he did in 2014, when he annexed Crimea.
Moscow, for its part, rejects the expansion of NATO into territories close to Russia and wants the guarantee that Ukraine will never be part of the group. Putin denies any intention of promoting a military invasion.
If on one side of the crisis are the USA and the main western powers, such as Germany, the United Kingdom and France, in addition to NATO, the military alliance created in the Cold War to oppose the former Soviet Union, Russia has formally allied itself with China in this Friday, with a meeting between Putin and Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Both leaders agreed in a statement to denounce NATO expansion and US military pacts in the Indo-Pacific region. These are the most flamboyant, but not the only, examples of the text released by the Kremlin of what Putin and Xi called the “boundless friendship” between Russia and China.
The meeting took place before the opening of the Winter Olympic Games, in the Chinese capital, an event boycotted diplomatically by the West, in another example of the Cold War 2.0 currently underway.
Source: Folha
