The Kremlin on Friday dismissed a media report which suggested the U.S. was worried that Moscow would launch an attack on Ukraine, saying Russia did not pose a threat to anyone, APA reports citing Reuters.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a U.S. media report which said that Washington had raised concerns about the potential attack with its European Union allies.
The report by Bloomberg cited potentially suspicious troop movements inside Russia as being one of the reasons for U.S. concern.
"We have repeatedly said that the movement of our armed forces on our territory should not be a cause for concern," Peskov told reporters on a conference call.
He said the media report pointlessly fuelled East-West tensions. "Russia is not a threat to anyone," he said.